Evening Star Newspaper, April 4, 1926, Page 67

f i ILLUSTRATED FEATURES MAGAZINE SECTION o he Sty St £ Part 5—8 Pages WASHINGTON D 6 SUNDAY MORNING, APRIL 4, 1926. FICTION AND HUMOR Fame at Last Has Come in Full Measure to John Paul Jones BY COL. FRAY WENTY K E. EVANS, on April 24, States Gov honors 1 john Paul Years ago. United ernment paid memory ¢ 1 | | mes in commemorative ex- | ercises at Annapolis, where the body f the famous sailor-diplomat lay in | state in Bancroft Hall century the remarkable ca the great sea captain had been clothed in comparative ubscurity. The title of ‘or more than ‘ e of rate was still coupled with deeds of | hi < re distinction when name w alled, and men thought of him as a daring privateersman at the best His very burfal place wus unknown r 11 full decades until the six-year | irch of Gen. Horace Porter revealed it in & squalid quarter of Paris. | Yet John Paul Jone in his \lmv'!: span of 45 vears, had risen to meteoric heights. Ile was the first American | naval comman o hoist the Stars | and Stripes or American man-o'- war, and the first to receive a s to it from a foreign power. He wa the only An mmander who | ever landed a hostile force on uro- | pean sofl Not once in his brilliant career had he fought on a ship worthy of his senius, but th m Horme hard’s X the Serapis v with Yo epics of 1 ea. Cath $ine the Great made 4 ad miral and Russia bes on him imperial tions and distinctions | of the highest rank. France knighted him: Louis XVI 1 1 on him, in vapis fight eek hef ation of d sword. A ] was toasted in Paris 1 dmiral of Franc Denmark pensioned him for conspicu- | ous services. ‘The American Cong | extended to him the pr o5 of ] floor of the Senate and House, passed | @ resolution of thanks to him, voted ' ld medal, and, on the eve of | had confirmed th death ppointment of “Admiral John Pa as United States Commissione to treat with th ey of Algiers o the release captive Americans. Washington, Napoleon Benjamin | Fr had paid h b t nd he figure Elurope Then came the inexplicable lapse eat sen captain_into more \ century of obscurity. broken hd then by some reference to | wcts of piracy.’” | o Gen. Horace Porter is due, more | other man. the lifting of although just before his | systematic and exhaustive search of | six vears for the resting place of | John Paul Jones was crowned by sue- | a8 in 1905, the publ h of Buell's ul Founder e Ameri can Navy,” created a furore with its | bril exposition of an almost | 1 Jones ant ond, In had been place of otests - characte the St. T officially d burtal for s Cemetery nated as a bodies of foreign w cemetery, orter wned, had been abandoned in 1793. When its site was finally determined, it was found that it had for years heen used as a | common dump pile. and a degrading, squalid spot_it had Lecone | of the final and [nv,\lli\(" which led to the | the dead hero’s markable one. ThHe on rn of numpha Dr Capitan eminent | ofessors of in the | 0] des Med: accom <he this difficult task week: of pain king measures The body, clad in a fine linen shirt with pleats \nd ruffles, was found in a leaden cof. fin that had en filled wi aleohol The state of preservation was so re- markable that Gen. Porter spoke of \wving easily flexed the knuckle | joints of the right ha The halr, | long and dark, was s tinged | with gray. Measurements of Houdon's | bust were then compared with those of the head. i Jones had joined the Masonic Lodge | 1 at Kirkeudbright in | hen in command of the | Tohn, at the aze of 2 In his honor the Lo e of 2 Soeurs in Paris had commissione Jean Houdon to execute a bust of Jones when he was at the peak of his fame, and Jam dison had pro nounced m e eness. The aordinarily alike A linen cap und in the coffin, bore the initials P o Then, to establish the identity be. yond eavil. a truly amazing operation performed—an autopsy of a body | that had been interred 113 vears be. fore. This revealed a spot on the left lung. clearly due to pneumonia, healed but surrounded with fibrous tissue. | While in the service of Russia, Jones | had developed pneumoni; an in- | spection of the fleet in 1789, and still | suffered from the effects on his return | to Paris. Il another verification of great impe we was the evidence of | titial nephritis, for Jones had kable symptoms of this his sudden death. In of a aound was the body, and the great r. despite a stormy career when | | les were often fought at | ! ze, had run the gamut of | r arties. flying splinters and | Spars, and a hail of musket | i un fire, unscathed The measurements further showed a body 5 feet, 7 inches in height, slender and exquisitely proporiioned, and there w yundant testimony to these and b Al features in the writings of | men who had known him. | Tpon receipt of the first convineing | advic Gen. Porter, President Ronsev cted with vizor. Congress propriated the neceseary funds and in due time 4 squadron, with Rear Ad- miral Charles D. shee in command, of the Bro: n 1ttaAnooga Tacoma, O an Galy % The a ()\' July nniversary of | Tohn 1 birth at Arbig- | an mpanies ~f American 00 blue- | suckets, esec < of | JOHN PAUL JONE§ from. Pain{jmg by Ceci i& Beaux The Stars and Stripes receive theit first foreign saluke wh The RANGER enters French wateys. §AVV DEPT. PHOTO 3 “He. Victorious PON HOMME SThe epi.cpsea.fighi‘ of the BON HOMME RICHARD and the SERAPIS N ) DATTLE 2efweern - ‘Ille RANGER and. The D RARE. JOHN PAUL - / < 3 " : . JONES . Zelured as a Pirate. Sailor-Diplo‘mat, to Whose Memory Signal Honors Were Paid by the Government Twenty Years Ago. Had a Remarkable Career, Which Was Clothed in Comparative Obscurity for More Than a Century—Burial Place Found After Persistent Six- Year Search by Gen. Horace Porter—-Triumphal Return From France and Ceremony at Annapolis Revived Public Interest in His Achievements—Victory Over Serapis Ranks Among Subjects of Greatest Epics of the Sea. French field al- fons of infan 3 through the packed stre vritmn.(‘l'\'-" jces were held a* t Am in Church of he Hoiy . ssador Robe McCormiess, Ger jorace Por- ter and Agsistant® the Hartford, the historic flagship of Admiral Farragut, and of the French I ambassadors vepresenting this | sguadron lying in the harbor. Ameri- < or Heury Cabot Lodge, | can cavalymen, marines and midship- and the entive diplomatic corps at- | yen “veceived the body when it was tended : transferred ashore, and American and Arriving in front of the Invalides, | french bluejackets guarded it. the casket was lifted from its caisson, placed on a catafalque, and the troops marched by, rendering the highest mil honors. A fitting spot it was, for Napoleon, as First Consul, had| been so impressed by Jones' pamphlet, reatise on the Existing State of the During the impressive commemora- tive exercises the casket was draped with a Union Jack. On it rested a wreath of laurel, a spray of palm, and the gold-mounted sword of Louis XVI. Prominent among the distinguished e e That he had it re |Buests were Admiral Dewey; Rear Ad printed with &, title page bearing the | Miral Cuxppton o R inscription, “Written by the (:renl;‘\’“ assailor -Jussernnd, Gen. Horac ; LAt borter, Secretary of the Bona- American and Russian Admiral parte and Gov. Warfield of Maryland. On the squadlron’s return it w o 2 off the Virginia capes by Rear Ad-| President Roosevelt, in his 30-min. miral Robley D. Evans' flagship, the | ute address, coupled the name of Maine, and two divisions of the North | John Paul Jones with Pe , Me- Atlantic Fleet Arriving at Annapolis | Donough, Faragut and Dew His the body was-saluted bxthe -guns of aside remark to Admiral Dewey, J-) v “Presidents are well enough in their way, but it's worth while in life to have had a First of May!" brought a spontaneous roar of approval. In it he also flayed the “little Navy men” of Congress and paid his respects to those who denounced the British for the burning of Washington, holding the sin of the red-coated invaders trivial as compared with that of our own people in having neglected its defense. Gen. Porter gave an eloquent de- seription of John Paul .Jones with his: “‘He displayed the flerce temerity of the anclent sed kings with the knightly courtesy of medieval chivai- ry.” He pictured him in the heat of battle in the desperate sea fight be- tween the Bon Homme Richard and the Serapis when Jones, with his ship literally sinking beneath him, and .200 prisoners running wild about her decks, hurled back that splendid de- fiance to the call for surrender with his “I havé not yet begun to fight!” He drew him as a shining figure in the courts of Europe; a wizard of the sea, an adept diplomat, and contrasted all that fame and glory with the neglect and abuse that had followed his un- timely death. Tre exercises ended- with ‘“‘How Sieep the Brave,” and the casket was later removed to its permanent crypt in the Naval Academy Chapel, a silent inspiration to the midshipmen of the | historic Navy School, as the older generations of the Navy call it. The glamour of the return of the |3 hero to the land of his adoption quick- | ened interest in his life, and today John Paul Jones stands enshrined in the hearts of Americans on a plane with its greatest heroes. By a striking coincidence, the.date a s of those memorable commelnorative exercises was the one hfindredth and twenty-eighth anniversary of John Paul Jones’ first great sea fight, when the British ship of war Drake struck her colors, after an hour's sanguinary fighting, to the Ranger off Carrick- fergus, where Jones fought under the handicaps of a green crew and inferior gun power, but won through his su- perior maneuver, dogged courage and accurate fire. Then came the even greater victory of the Bon Homme Richard over the Serapis and the Countess of Scar- borough, with both the British ships uperior in gunpower and size. Here again, as in all of his actions, it was his superior genius, his flaming cour- age and his determination to win at all odds that establish beyond question his right to rank with the greatest of sea captains from Drake to Farragut. At the end of his operations against the English coast, with Britain firmly entrenched as mistress of the seas, he had captured 60-odd English ships, landed four times on British soil, seized or destroyed large amounts of military equipments and supplies, sunk $1,000,000 worth of shipping at sea, and laughed at the attempts to drive him off. In addition he had taken hundreds of prisoners whom he exghanged to save the lives of Amer- icans rotting in the Britjsh prison hulks at Brooklyn. For this latter feat he received the thanks of Con- gress. The oft-repeated slanders on piracy that dimmed the fame of John Paul Jones for many years have been fully spiked, but are still circulated in the face of the facts. The charge of piracy was first bruited after he had landed at Whitehaven, on the west () coast of England, from the American ship-of-war Ranger, on April 22, 1778. The Ranger was destined to become a famous ship. On July 4, 1777, Jones had holsted the Stars and Stripes on her for the first time, and it was at Quiberon Bay, on February 4, 1778, that Admiral 'La Motte Piquet fired the first forelgn salute to the new ag. Landing at Whitehaven with 31 volunteers the intrepid leader did not return to the Ranger until he had spiked the guns of the shore batteries and set fire to the shipping in the har- bor. To this unprecedented insult to the mighty British nation he added another on the following day, by land- ing with 12 men at St. Mary's Isle with the intention of capturing the Earl of Selkirk. Selkirk was away, but Jones’ men carried off the silver plate, and the British Isles resounded | ried over | pictured as a ruthless s | Selkirk with a politely with indignation. As time went on | the presence of John Paul Jones on the sea wrought them to the story of the stol frenzy, and plate was ¢ two continents. Jones was yurge of the sea and an abandoned pirate of the most depraved type. Upon learning of the theft of the | silver plate, however, he had bought it back from the men for $700 and, at the first opportunity, returned it to worded letter of explanation and apology. Selkirk, in his letter of acknowledgment, v equally courteous, and in it held t Jones was no pirate, but acting under an honorable commissior |at war with | America, France | England is the pirate | Lord | command of British | ravaged John | killed | bodied slaVes in Jamaica. | he did against the | collection of international cl: | 1ater by appointing him as Later, when Jones took prize into Holland ports, the English min 1ster there always refe o him in | his official correspondence as “a cer- tain_ Paul Jones, a pirate.” Jones | skillfully countered with the accepted definition of te as Yone who Is d." he wrote, am holding, ‘a regu i |lar commission as a naval officer in {an_ honor ble service and making war only upon the armed enemies of my country. England is at war with Holland and Spair and engaged in prov ing war in sev eral colonies, and it seems to me that nd not 1 It is interesting to recall that later Dunni the head of a and Torie Paul Jones' plantation burned his building and sold his able in_ Virginia, his _catt * el 'HE fame of John Paul Jones as a sea captain of nd indomitable courage established in the 20 elapsed since fitti onors were ren dered him at Annapolis. The aspects of his genius, however, are apt to be overshadowed by his valor at | As a diplomat he early urged upon vernment the policy of attack are genius has been firr vears that have other sea, ish sea power in her home | waters to weaken the disastrous Brit- ish blockade r coa His chief diplomatic tri was taking the captured Serapis and Countess of | Scarborough into Holland ports to { raise_questions concerning the rights | of belligerent ships {and to embroil Holland as al waters, valuable 1. This leading b n neut ally in the war against Engl advice of French lawyers and diplomats, succeeded in ranging Holland agains England without having caused o fense to Holland or wounding Frenct ceptibilities he United States showed its in his diplomatic skill by intrustin him with the difficult mission of tk | sioner "to treat with the Bey of Algiers. Washington sent on a diplomatic mission to Holland t« | urge Holland to join in an expedition® | against the B: ates with ar American squadron to be under his command, but before the ships could be provided Jones died in Paris. Wa | ington once wrote of him tha but holds a stra of the polit and_military weigh of command at sea.’ Of his personal cha stics there is enough known to depict a gallant sailor of rare personal charm and sterling qualities, who was a_master of French and Spanish. In dress he | was exceedingly fastidious, of arrest | ing presence nd a model of ease and deportment in fashionable gatherings Yet, for a background, we find that | he was the son of a Scotcn peasant and had made a voyage on a slaver before he was 20 years of age. As an index to his personification of sheer courage, one might quote his saying that “Men mean 1inore than | suns in the fating of ships.” While in command of the Provi dence, in the days when flo aboard ship excited little comment he boasted that there was not a cat | 0nine tails on her, for he had thrown the only one overboard on the first day out. In his early days as mert sailor, however, when attacked by a giant negro, Jones killed the mutineer with one blow of a marlinspike. When tried for murder he was readily ac quitted, for he showed that had he wished to kill the man he might easily have shot him with one of the two pistols that he carried, and that he had used the marlinspike in the wish to disable and not Kill. He w | mon quality among born sailor | months he paid his own expens | rather than make demands upon poverty-stricken government. In foreign waters He paid large sums to cover unauthor d money promised to his sailors by over-enthusiastic re cruiting officers. For long periods he forebore to recover from Congress money that was long due him. PR N an age and among environment where dissipation was universal he was notabiy free from dissipation, and was a deep student of history, lan- guages and naval warfare. It was inevitable that with his repu- tation for bravery and his striking personal charms, among which are often cited his exquisitely proportioned ves of magnetic quali ng voice of rare charm, John Paul Jones was known as a gallant at the French and Rus s generous to a fault, a com For _An index to his character is shown in his long intimacy with such out- standing figures as Washington, Franklin, Lafayette, Wayne, Hamil ton and the two Morrises. Franklin paid tribute to the tism of his presence, charm of his manner. of epigram and verse, and noted for his caustic wit. The latter once cost him the friendship of John Adams. Fame has come in full measure to John Paul Jones, although as Gen Porter pointed out in his “ommemora- tive speech 20 years asv. **No inscrip- tion was engraved upon his coffin, no statue was erected in his honor, no ship was given his name, no public building called after him."” Thanks to Gen. Porter and to such historians as Buell, and the initiative of Theodore Roosevelt, the rare ex- ploits and fascinating character of the Scottish peasant boy now rank with the highest of ithe long line of wr riors who won fame on the sea. “strange magne- e indescribable He was fond Air Brush for Face. PATSY CHAPMAN “of St. Paul, Minn., has & new idea for apply- ing face paints. She uses an air brush, the liquid colors being blown on her .face, according to Popular Science Monthly. 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