NEW-YORK TRIBUNE ILLUSTRATED srH'LK.MKNT.

BONES OF JOHN PAUL JONES AND ROBERT EMMET.

Unavailing Search for Them The Former in an Abandoned Cemeteryin Paris Where Emmet 1*Believed to Have Bun liurial.

JOHN PAIL JONES'S i;( RIAL PLACK.\u25a0' . •\u25a0•

The merit of locating the Fife of the burialof John Paul Jones is mainly due to a

Paiisian archoeo.ogist, M de Ricaudy, who, inIM*-f death is formally re-corded a;- drops j/ of tli chest C"*hy trot

d< "). '11. si ol the runeral Is statedby ili'- Frew h authorities to have been defrayedby the French Government John Paul Joneswaa a Prol nd his death occurred dur-ing the mosl stormy period of the French Revo-lution. It should be n' original rec-ord of her with all d« umeilating t^ the burial of Protestants in Paris, wasdestroyed in 1871, when the Hotel de \'ilie andthe building In the Avenue Victoria where themunicipal archive* were kept were burned bythe Commune. Tbe confusion In regard towhere John Paul Jones was buried, noticed inthe works of his American and Fit inh biog-raphers, is due to obstacles that would haveproved Insurmountable had riot M. r. Madden aa] it :s r- . .body was taken bf Bhjai . I .Of the paths at th- p- i::t where . I.now marks th- tra.'. I .. ti-: \u25a0e\«'r, he found ahsotutel]

!:\u25a0 I.riling:isai'i to St. I' . -.>.n

—i»nin| the tecoida more Ckdrj . that Caen

was OOCe an CBtnUKCt ::\u25a0 \ \u25a0 ks] I |FYiar's-st. at the SOJ Iojcame evident t«> Dr. Bmna t that thai \u25a0•estraan referred to by .MhM-d, and !on *—«**-aj the iiimmion II ttaxs,\u25a0.it the li-ht Of the estJi nip Btaiwall." titt.'d a prooa pot, -; thisentrance a* the one. Hut th< . : thatbe con . njare as awn money es ttaaa hi thasearch, and i-luraed to AlUTlha In ej:i::-^-his» account he sail!. "Ib« !;we this work willi';r.i\e otKmnvet will bo found where Ihave indicated.At any rate, it is not at St. Mi«tuas or Cssau>nevin."

Dr.Emmet's first worh « -1-..- vault at St. Pen ;'\u25a0 '' \u25a0

working Cot four :: \u25a0•\u25a0

01 1 < sit* noa the partthe cemetery. la th I.... - buried at «nj

. 1ku!l vrap] • i... - -tor at on c coo 1. . •

star, l; ..- ksoi\u25a0 . \u25a0 - :.Bake I•\u25a0:' D tnefs head 1t!,.mi,'r.t the head BBJght have hitor that purpose and br . "ceivlng vault after th-- burial I \u25a0 y. Thecondition of the Hltoia •

' thfa(Hiirklyproved th.v it had

• . - \u25a0advanced age, arheroaa Bmmet «alive at the t:::.e Ol his CSSCUt

Then he began the search fur \u25a0'

vault An old chsrefe wcorJ ejga .Richard Isaddes emcod th.s tomfiof the entrance to the >

St. Mlh.ins brought like fsajoßa fjndei Ihfslab so long considered bf ",.ir.y aa Utic headstone of Kmr:. t th- bSC

- • : - . Jgirl were found, and dt -;i'. c scan oM.a the time of his death.

Hi&tor] states that on th- day "f ..*. .•-

Cmmefa body was p... I n \u25a0\u25a0...:it St. Pt.tJ r's Beyond thai tt.ere hsnoevidbat the tratiitior. is. th..; it sa aacrt .•

night a !boa .•\u25a0 :that th»- authorities \u25a0etc exceed•... • Bb a I

- Meads, should r.\. .Hen..- a search for the tomb of a peavtai Mai,whenever, as often, tliat sa. red ape 4is obscuredby tradition, in a quest of peevdtal interest. Buda task has boea that of I>r. Thomas Addis Ilm-met, of No. 81) Madison-a\e., who has Just re-turned from a three months' hunt for the graveoX his great- uncle, Kobert Emmet That fa-

It interesting to note thai several ifrom this diary of Gouverneui M Ithe information addui id by Ike Parisiasi ar^ h.:' PaulJones's death, \ it>ited him on his deatathe afternoon of July 18, 171)2, and drew US hiswill for him, "when his. extremities had alreadjbecome cold." Fur some unexjilai:Gouverneur Morris did not attend John Pan:Joni s'a funeral, although he !-id for sonbeen on friendly tl rms with him. The ccresaoaywas, according to Gouvernewr Morris. ..modest and stmpkl one, for the fortune of tho de-ceased "was far from abundant," and the min-ister did not feel authorized to spend the moneythat belonged toJohn Paul JosmbsTs estate, wh> hwas awaited with linpalifSMe by Jonesfs rela-tives, or the money of the I'nit-d BtS"such follies." It would appeal from this thaithe funeral expense was not defrayed by th->Frenrh Government, as the French authorities\u25a0SScrt, nor uiiil.r sack circu: . ,\as Ulikely that the body was clothed la a naval uni-form, the buttons ( f which might at th>» ;time serve to identify ren... ;in theabandoned cemetery. c. I.B,

The commodore'a burial betas, one of the listthat took place to the cemetery f the Roe dc bGrange aux Belles, ii la believed that his bodylies near the former entrance. lm:r. \u25a0 d-.ai.!>after the discontinuance of the cemetery th>-land was sold by the government, and has notsince changed hands. The spot when John PacdJones's body posea was used aa a stable 1":the carts 'of a night s.>:i reounrer, an.l auisequently by a brandry estabUshment When aslight excavation was made to place the befZeifor the laundry, some bonea and human •were unearthed. Th>- place is no* ••< • iiii»•! I>a photographer. Excavations have b.-.-n made.but have led to no result except the unearthlnajof human Lories that cannot be Identified. Byan odd coincidence the stri 1 which lea Ithe Rue dcs Eclusea Saint-Martin, oppositeNo. 1 (beneath which are th< bonea oi JohnPaul Jones), ia named Rue '\u25a0•".\u25a0 1 d'A/.ir. afterQueen Marie Antoinette's weU known pfaysii ;.m.who accompanied Gouverneui Horrhi duiliiaj mavisit to John Paul Jones when he I.iv on bladeathbed in the afternoon of July IS, IT.C aarelated in the second %•>..:.-\u25a0 of the diary viGouverneur Morris.

among tbc records of the Paris c^meterl**. Badamong the documents collected by CharlesRead, the English archaeologist, enabled M. \u25a0!•\u25a0Ricaudy to affirm positively that John I'm!Jon- a v. is luri'-l in th- cemetery which was

opened t.. {>>:•igi Protestants In KBI, and situ-ated to the in rthwesi of the Hospital St. Louis,on the sit. now cccupied by Utc one and twostory buildings and sheds numbered 41, {•"» -••\u25ba

and 47 Roe de la Grange aux Belle* and No. 1

Roe dea Eclusea Saint-Martin. The area of thisabandoned cemetery i* 2£oo s'iua-.- BcetreaThe buildings are ol Inconsiderable value. T

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cemetery was closed in 1T1»::, shortly after Jo!-

Paul Jones v. as buried th< r \u25ba \u25a0.

DEATH MASK OF ItOHKItT KMMKT.Taken by the elder IVtrle.

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