The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-03-08
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IWV&kS STOK-E HIS E.Z EN- THE
-M first premiums at every Fair where it has
been exhibited. At the South Western Indiana
District Fair, held here October, 1852 there were
but two premiums offered for cooking stoves-one for
the best wood cooking and for the best coal
cooking stove. The Economist took the FIRST
PREMIUM FOR THE BEST LOOKING STOVE
FOX WOOD. Rocker, Klusman Co took the first
premium for their cooking stove for coal. No other
premiums were offered. The large silver medal was
awarded TO the Economist at the New York State
FAIR and the hrst premium at the United States
Fair held at Chicago. and twelve other State and
County Fairs in 1853
In no branch of mechanical art has thore
been more apparent advance than in the man
uiacture of stoves. II is but few years since
the very name was novelty, representing n
huge, shapeess structure, almost devoid of
use as ornament, These have gradually given ace
patterns Of and utility until the varieties
our markets now present nave 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
ment has been real, leaving nothing to be- desired
that point, but the severe competition in price,
to which they have been subjected, has deprived
them of many of the more substantial qualities
desirable This seems more especially to have been
the in reference tc cook stoves-an article of
domestic economy that has to do with scolding
wives and crotcheay servants than most people i'm
agiue The public have long sought improve
ment in this article and believe ready pay
any reasonable price for cooking stove, if il only
Possesses the merits of size, weight, convenience,
durability economy, and perfection of ma
These qualities seem 10 be possessed fully in
the Econp mist-a new stove, perfected aud brought
& Norton, of Albany We heard SO much OF this
stove, and it looked much like "A stove intended
for use, that concluded to try them, and the
result of the experiment conviuces us that the
propreters, i'll their determination the best
store ia the t0ortd, have succeeded. We regard the
Economist possessing all the merits above emu
merated--as the great stove OF the day-far in ad-
vance of anything ever attempted in the line of
stoves, perfect in all its appointments, and
its name in durability and the of fuel Among
the many conveniences attached 10 1t, may be men
toned largo oven, with hooks arranged, for sIls-
pending meats while roasting. A copper water
tank, holding from IL to % gallOns-warming
closet broiling hearth, &c, &c. The broiIine
hearth OF the noticeable features this
remarkable stove. There never has been, to our
knowledge, any bToing ii XtuTe that was really sat
isfactOry lis operation. The prOprietors Of this
stove have been conducting d series of experiments
upon brOling, eliciting some valuable facts,
snlting In the in vention of gridiron adapted to
this stove which has been secured by letters patent
and is OF the admirable things of the kind
we ever saw-broiliug without smoke and Keeping
the Goals in a constant glow. We always glad
do justice to Tneehan ical nI roVements, aud es
pecially such Contribute 50 largely the general
good, the one above mentioned
The Economist, whiC h is commanding such large
sale, will be found only at SUANTLIN & STE
PHENS'S, Main ST., between Water aud First
Evansville, IND mart