The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-06-30

TIE Economist.


II first premiums at every Fair where it has
been exhibited. At the South Western Indiana
District Fair, held here October 1859, there were
but two premiums offered for cooking stoves-nne for
the best wood cooking stove and for the best
cooking stove. The Economist took the FIRST
PREMIUM FOR THE BEST OOKTNG STOVE
FOR WOOD. Rocker, Klusman * Co took the first
premium for their cooking stove for coal. other
premiums were offered The large silver medal was
| awarded to the Economist at the New York State
Fair; and the first premium at the United States
Fair held at Chicago. and twelve other State and
County Fairs in 1852
In branch of mechanical art has there
bsen a more apparent advance than in tGe man
uiacture OF stoves. 1t is but few years since
the very a novelty, representing "A
huge, shapeless structure, almost As devoid Of
ornament, These have gradually given place
Fatterls Of grace and utility; until the varieties
/ orr markets now present haze almost exhausted
the vocabulary Of names; and the different phases
the metal is made to assume, would astOnish old
Vulcan himself In style and finish, the improve
rlet has been real leaving nothing TO be desired
on that point, but the severe competition in price,
to which they have been subjected, has deprived
desirable This seems more especially to have beer,
the case in reference to cook stoves-an article of
domestic economy that has more 10 do with sculding
wives and crOtche.y servants than most people i'm
agne. The public have long sought an improve
men i'll this article, and believe ready pay
any reasonable price for cooking stove, if it only
possesses the merits Of size, weight. convenience,
durability, economy, and perfection Of manufacture
These qualities seem to be possessed most fully in
the EcOnnmist-a new stove, perfected and brought
ont the past season, by Messrs. TreadweI, Perry
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stove, and it looked much like IA stove intended
tor Use, that concluded to try them, and the
result of the experiment convinces that the
prourIctors i'll their determination to make the best
store ia he rorid, have succeeded. We regard the
Economist possessing all the merits above emu
merttod-:Is the great stove OF the day-far in AID
Of anything ever attempted i'll the line Of
perfect in all its appointments, and true
its name in durability and the use of fuel Among
the many COpveHieuces attached to II, may be
toned large uVen with hooks arranged, for sus-
pending meats while roasting 4 copper water
tank, holding FROM II = gallons-warning
closet, broing hearth, DC, &c. The broiuS
hearth il of the most noticeable features this
remarkable stove. There never has been, to our
Knowledge any broiiiug fixture that really
isfacory iii its operation. The Pruprieors Of this
stove have been conducting series of experiments
upon broiliug, ccitug some valuable facts, and re-
sulting in the invention OF a gridirun adapted to
this stove, which has been secured by letters patent
and is of the most admirable things of the kind
we saw-broiinS without smoke, ard keeping
the Goals in d constant glow. We always glad
TO do justice to mechanical inn rovemeIts, and
pecially such contribute largely TO the general
good, the one above mentioned.
The Economist, whit h is commanding such large
sale, will be found only at SCANTLIN Il STE
PHENS'S, Main St., between Water and First,
Evansville, IND mart