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William C. Schermerhorn donates $300,000 to Columbia University; the aggregate amount that he defrauded in taxes was much more. Thus do our magnates supply themselves with present and posthumous fame gratuitously.
The savages were attacking the house of a Mr. Schermerhorn, where a few of the settlers had collected for defense, when Benteen approached.
He was one of New York's millionaires, and his Newport villa is situated on Narragansett avenue near Cliffside, opposite the Pinard cottages. "Mr. Schermerhorn, with Mrs.
The founder, Peter Schermerhorn, was a ship chandler during the Revolution. Parts of his land and other possessions he bought with the profits from his business; other portions, as has been brought out, he obtained from corrupt city administrations.
"I cabled her to-day," said Paliser, who had done nothing of the kind. With the same concern, Mrs. Austen lied as freely. "It is too sad for words." But at once the air of the sympathiser departed, replaced by that of the hostess. Through one door the men were entering. Through another came the girls. Kate Schermerhorn approached. "Dear Mrs. Austen, Margaret's all right, but she has a headache."
Geysers, hell-spouts, fuming fissures, cunning little craterlets with half-portions of molten lava ready to serve hot; more gases than you could create in all the world's chemical laboratories: in fact, everything to make the place a paradise for Old Nick and Dr. Schermerhorn.
The young man remained on deck to superintend the stowing of the scientific goods and the personal baggage. All this time I had been thinking busily. I remembered distinctly one other instance when Dr. Schermerhorn had disappeared. He came back inscrutably, but within a week his results on aerial photography were public property.
Who are you, anyway?" "I am Dr. Schermerhorn," the latter answered. "Seen pieces about you in the papers." "How many men haf you in the crew?" "Me and the mate and the cook and four hands." "And you could go soon?" "Soon as you want if I go." "I wish to leaf to-morrow." "If I can get the crew together, I might make it. But say, let's not hang out here in this run of darkness.
"Karl Augustus Schermerhorn, the man whose experiments to identify telepathy with the Marconi wireless waves made such a furore in the papers?" "Oh, that was only a by-product of his mind. He was an original investigator in every line of physics and chemistry, besides most of the natural sciences," said Barnett.
I was to be saved because none of the conspirators understood navigation. The next morning I approached Captain Selover. "Captain," said I, "I think it my duty to report that there is trouble brewing among the crew." "There always is," he replied, unmoved. "But this is serious. Dr. Schermerhorn came aboard with a chest which the men think holds treasure.
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