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Show Accident Basis of Fortune. Tho lato II. F. Jones somo thirty years ago was a partner nnd bookkeeper book-keeper In a Pittsburg firm that conducted con-ducted a small forging shop; n few thousand dollars comprised tho firm's Outlro capital, An em ploy o ono day In a moment of cnrelessnoss while directing di-recting tho courso of n while-hot Ingot In-got of Iron through tho rollers allowed al-lowed his cold stcul tongs to bo drawn along with tho half-molten motnl. Tho result wnu a pair of ruined tongs, but tho discovery of a procoss by which u superior grado of steel could bo produced. Tho workman's work-man's accident becamo tho basis of tho fortuno of $50,000,000 of which Mr, Jones, died possessed. |