The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-04-16
SURELY PAUL JONES'S BODY.
AVN tSSADOR PORTER REPORTS
TBENTIFICiTION COMPLETE.

~ Lons search Aided b. French stu
dentG--CareeF " the Great seaman
WASHINGTON, April IS The report OF
Anhasss dor Porter at Paris, who for tho
past ak yeors has been searching Tor the
body OF John Paul Jones, the famous
American naval fighter. Of the finding OF
the bodv In the old 81. Louis cemetery In
Paris. has reached the state Department
Mr.. Porter characterized the Identification
OF the BODY as complete in every par
tIcular.' The body will be placed in a suit
able coffin and deposited 10 a receiving
vault In an American church In Paris to
await a decision as TO the transportation OF
the remains 70 the United States, II Is
probable that a battleship viii be sent to
France to bring the body back.
The search for the remains Of the famous
American s1ior was first begun many years
ago. Ambassador Porter was one Of the
FIRST 10 take an active interest in the search,
and IL has been greatly due TO his EFFORTS that
the project became successful.
Ambassador Porter has been aided by q
society in Paris which u interested in such
researches. A man named Ricaudy In
Paris became interested In the finding Of
the body OF Paul ones. and It was be who
found that the body had been buried In the
old st. Louis cemetery. Permission was
obtained from the Partisan authorities 70
tunnel under the house standing on the site
Of the cemetery. A number Of caskets
were found and a few weeks ago the search
srs we're iubiIant over the discovery OF
leaden coffin, such n one as Jones was
buried in. It turned out, however, TO be
the body Of Frenchman. The search was
L D ~ orantiina pQREef and DOQN
were discovered yesterday,
Many bills have been introduced in
Congress for the appropriation Of money
10 conduct the search All Of them failed
10 pass. The first was introduced by Ssna-
tor Penrose two years ago.
After more than century Of neglect
and injustice it now appears that the
memory Of John Paul Jones, the first and
rerh. D, the greItest Of the great figures
In American naval history, Is to receive
fitting honor from the country be served
80 we'll Those qualified 70 judge are
strongly Of the opinion that the search
which Ambasss dor Porter has conducted
for five years. in the face Of disheartening
obsta cles and at his own personal and very
he Wy expense, has resulted succ ssfully
and that the mains Of the great American
Those who have given study to the career
Of John Paul Jones attribute the prejudice
that has been more or less active against
him and against his memory, even in this
country. 10 the effect Of English senti-
ment. To the English Of the late eighteenth
and early nineteenth century John Paul
Jones was ever a pirate. There always
has been in this country, these writers
y,ofvt ont q car4a{p claimant raadv n AaraDf
English verdicts even when they affected
American honor and the fame Of Aneri-
can atri is. Statesmen the J hn A ans
type in New England turned up their noses
at Jones as an advent l.. sr-as foreigner
This cha re Of being foreigner more
over, was made at a time in American
history when hardly anybody on the Ameri-
can emit nent, barring the red Indians,
could go back a generation without run
ming into foreign ance tors. As 70 his be.
ing an edventuIer it may be said that at
the time the war Of the Revolution broke
cut John Paul Jones was just exactly WIT
George Washington described himself 10
be, A planter down in Virginia 1t was
from lis Fredericksburg plantation that
he went and rendered his services TO the
osuse Of American liberty,
On Just what grounds the English made
John Paul Jones out u be pirate" must
ever remain otecuI-. II he was a sea
pirate then George Washington was a land
pirate. Jones commanded American men
Of arms on the high seas and George Wash
tngtcn commanded them on land Both
we're fighting the same enemy and under
the same flag. Jones in his warfare did just
what any other naval commander to-day
would do II he had the daredevil bravery
and the m6sterful skill 10 do il. He BARRED
the enemy's coasts, he chased the enemy's
haC wherever he found It flying. Jones
fought and won. lie was terror and
scourge ell along the British coast. He
descended on ports, spiked glns and burned
shipping. He fought one Of the most
desperate actors known in naval history
with a rotten hulk 4 O vessel under him.
kept afloat only by lsshinR il 10 tho pow
srful enemy he was fighting, He won the
hght, q ptuTed the eremy and made the
onemy's ship bis flagship when his oWn ship
wont down. All this, fer some occult rea-
son, has ever been piracy In the eyes Of
the Rritor.
Why John FarI changed bis name TO
John Paul Jones has never bean clearly
revealed. He did It when he came into
possession Of his brothers large planta-
ton down In Virginia. He was already
. wealthy man at the time his brother died
intestste and the Virginia property cane
70 MN Dg lnuehlldbCf's Llb lAlLoI uhA DCu
q poor man gardener in Kirkcudbright-
shire. Scotland. AZ 70 years Of age
John Paul was approD'iced TO a Scottish
nerchlnt who was ~ aged in the AmeTi-
can trade. This took him out TO his brothers
plantati tons in Virginia On a return trip
10 Scotland he took in a bHRantine on which
be sa lied, the captain and mate having
died on the voyage. For this be was re-
warded 10y the owners with the captaincy
OF a vessel trading 20 the West Indies.
In this trade he prOspered and gained an
independence
Ii Was In l77s, when John Paul was "a
years old, that the IOther 6ied and John
Paul int crit ed his estates. For two years
he lei the s'aid life Of Virginia planter.
But the fires OF the Pevolution were teRiu-
ming to laze. John Paw Jones's symrathiss
were where Washington's, Jefierson's 81
all the great leaders Of those days we're
BE offered tis servicesl and was commits
STONED 20 purchase vessels for the navy
the first American navy,
In l77e, in command Of the Alfred he
ni'ed the Nova Scotia coast captured
vessels and turned loose over 100 American
prisoners, In 1871 he commanded the
Ranger and was the first naval command er
TO sc u unCe r tie American flag on the high
RIOS With the Ranger he raided the
British coast, swoopc' down on White
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