![]() The passengers, including his father, are all elderly well-dressed men. After his father's death, Martin sees his father, briefly and accidentally, in a horse-drawn "omnibus" belonging to the municipal transportation company as it drives past him in a crowded street. Augustus had disinherited Martin several years earlier after Martin expressed disapproval of the unscrupulous business methods by which Augustus had accumulated a large fortune. His father, Augustus Pemberton, is recently deceased. Martin Pemberton is a freelance journalist. The setting of the novel is New York in 1871. ![]() ![]() The novel is in the first person, fictionally written by the character McIlvaine some thirty or forty years after the events. The Waterworks is a novel by American writer E. ![]()
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