Show ACCIDENT THAT MEANT RUIN simple overturning of en an inkpot re bulted in the bankruptcy of greit great firm the mere motion of a hand ruined cobbett co one of the largest and of english engineering firms firmi they and an american firm had tendered bids for the building of the great kaura bridge for the it russian aslan government jacob cobbett who was the brains und and center of the business spent six months in designing and contracts contracting n g and had all his plans ready ills his bid wa was s accepted and material was bought in enormous quantities A time ilme limit had bad been set for both commencement and finish and cobbett was perfecting hla his plans and making sure of the smallest details with all the formula spread out on tho the table before him when lie he stretched out hla his hand overturned an inkpot and drowned the most important of the papers in a black spa sea cobbett had a poor memory in a feyer feirer of anxiety he bo tried to recon his plans from stray notes it was impossible and he called on an tho the russian government for more time time wai was refused arid russia repudiated pud ted the contract on the ground of delay as the agreement allowed cobbett could not get hla his work through in time and the yankee firm which now advanced a cheaper tender with cut and dried plans got the job the loss drove cobbett co to bankruptcy and the great kaura bridge in russia Is american bolef |