Show JONES MODEL IS COMPLETED sculptor finishes his work on tho heroic statue of the great N naval a val comm commander s ader new york charles Cli arlea 11 II the new york sculptor has finished his working model for his heroic bronze statue bt aue of john paul jones for which congress appropriated 50 and which will bo be unveiled next spring pring at the entrance to potomac 4 statue of paul jones park in front of seventeenth street northwest washington D C has been working on the statue about two years in depicting tho the features of the revolutionary hero the sculptor has used the ter bust by gloudon IIo udon now in the posses slon sion of the national academy of de sign as a model tho the commander of 0 the bonhomme richard Ill chard Is represented as watching a naval navai engagement his right hand clenched and his left hand holding his sword commenting on his work mr ale haus baus sala said he had tried to depict a man who Is capable of doing almost anything and not simply a man who can do only one thing if you look at the celebrated greek statue of the farnese hercules in the Naz lonale in naples he said you will se a very simple figure lean ing on a club but you will be im pressed with the idea that this hercules could do anything I 1 nave tried to suggest this in ruy my statue of john paul jones it Is interesting now to recall that tor for years efforts were made to con firm the historical statements that the remains of john paul joney jones were in in berred in a certain ph fitce ce of ground in paris these theae efforts resulted in docu iren tary proof that lie was burled on the evening of july 20 1792 in the now abandoned cemetery of st louis in the northeastern section of paris the body was found encased in a lend lead en coffin and was transported from paris to the united states naval academy and deposited in the now historic brick vault there |