The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-27

worth the trouble" opined the General.
Both Of the human targets agreed with him.
But before they wit hdrew they took steps
to worry the Admiral. They said they were
going UP to Port smouth to charter a tug,
With this they would drive him ashore
where the, army could get him. Then they
took q train for Boston,
did the Admiral really shoot to kill?'
O. reporter asked the General yesterday.
Il paid the boy a dollar for the hole he
plugged in the rowboat, responded the
commander tartly. BY We'll get him
Of time. Meantime we aren't worrying.
The American Bonding Company won't lose
anything. Leavitt's friend who put up the
security is the one who'll get soaked"
Leavitt, despite his financial eccentrici-
ties. appears to be the sort of man who has
a talent for making friends. Up in York
Harbor everybody likes him. His great
strength and size, his good looks n en-
gaging manner, his Willingness TO- .oblige
his %neighbors, all conspire to make him one
Even Gen, Beardsley, we'll as he knew his
man, was deceived by him. Il really didn't
think he'd fool me like that, said the Cen
eral mournfully, in speaking ofthe Admirars
escape.
Leavitt has three automobiles up there
and,he keeps them II different places, Folks
about the town say that occasionally he
carries one of them way and gets another
to take it's place. For some reason I'M
known to the folks at York Harbor the new
auto is always painted a different color at
once. Leavitt's f~avorite amusement is re-
ported to he mail box shooting. At this he
The game is to get merry with o'ermuoh
saki, or something, get into one OF your
three automot lies and pike along the coun"
try roads at fifty miles an hour or 80, shoot
ing at all the little tin boxes used by the
free rural mail carriers that you pass
Leavitt is said never totniss one.
The motorboat Haidee, flagship. in the
battle Of York Harbor, is a beautiful craft,
is fifty feet long, is decked in for three
ously upholstered and finished in the cost:
liest of hard woods. She has a speed Of
/eighteen knots an hour and is far and away
the fastest craft in York Harbor;.
Folks at York Herbor would be sorry to
lose the Admiral. They have voted him a
outup.
There are folks in New York who were
eorry to lose hin, too, and who would rather
like to meet hin again. One Of them Is
the Robert G. Kelsey OF, Brooklyn whoee
suit against Leavitt lay behind the battle
Of York Harbor.. Kelsey's oase a thus
described yesterday by s. M. Richardson
OF 50 Broadway, his COUNSEL: ;,
"Mr. Kelsey had an American car, y said
he, which he wished to exchange for a
french CAT. IedNltt diIdiibcu w ihaho
the exchange. He was to furnish the
French car and take in payment the Ameri.
can car and $1,000. Mr.. Kelsey delivered
his car and the 81 900 to Leavitt and the
latter sent him out in the French car for a
, trial spin. 1t almost fell to pieces. Leavitt
said that he would make that all right in a
few days and he kept the car to repair II.
| But there was never anything doing. We
never could get money or car out OF him:
Neither could we get back what we had
! paid him or the American car. So we
| brought suit and got judgment and an order
Of arrest. After that he skipped his bail.
THE man seems to have plenty of money.
but all his property is in his wife's name,
apparently. The funny thing about It Is
| that everybody seems to like him. Even
the people he owes would be easy with him
! II he would meet them half way. As IL ID
| he's got all kinds Of Judgments against him.
! most OF them like that OF my CLIENT
An opera singer named Gerald jerome