The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-03-28
TIE Economist.

IHIgYRS STO IE MS T.aRRJNs THE
III first premiums at every Fair where it has
been exhibited. At the South W stern Indiana
District Fair, held hore October, 1859, there were
but two premiums offered for cooking for
the best wood cooking stove and for the best
cooking stove. The Economist took the FIRST
PREMIUM FOR THE BEST LOOKING STOVE
FOR WOOD. Rocker, Klusman Co took the nrst
prem um for their cooking stove for coal. No other
premiums offered. The large silver medal was
awarded TO the Economist at the New York state
Fair aud the first premium at the United States
Fair held at Chicago, and twelve other State and
County Fairs in 1859.
In ITO branch of mechanical art has there
bsen more apparent advance than in tue man.
utacture of stoves 1t is but u few years since
the very name novelty, representing a
huge, shapeless structure, almost devoid of
Use ornament, These have gradually given place
to patterns of grace and utility until the varieties
our markets now present have almost exhausted
the vocabulary of names and the different phases
the metal is made to assume, would astOnsh old
Vulcan himself In style and finish the improve
ment has been real, leaving nothing to be desired
that poiut but the severe com petition in price,
TO which they have been subjected, has deprived
them of many of the more substantial qualities
desirable. This seems more especially have been
the case in reference to cook stovesan article of
domestic economy that has to do with scolding
wives and crotchely servants than most people i'm
agine. The public have long sought improve
mont in this article and We believe ready to pay
amy reasonable price for cooking stove, if it only
Possesses the merits Of size, weight convenience,
durability, economy, and perfection of uacture
These qualities seem TO be possessed most fully in
the Econ mist-a new stove, perfected and brought
out the past season, by MessFs. TrSadwell, Perry
i Norton, of Albany. We hoard much of this
stove, and it looked so much like stove intended
for use, that concluded to try them, and the
result Of the experiment convinces that the
propreters in their determination to mako the
store in The arorId have succeeded. We regard the
Economist as possessing all the merits above
merAted-:ts -he great stove OF the day-far in adj
vance of anything ever attempted la the line of
stoves, perfect in all its appointments and true
its name in durability and the of fuel. Among
the many cOnvenences attached to 1t, may be men,
toned ~ large oven, with hooks arranged, for sus-
pending meats while roasting. A copper water
tank, holding from II TO % gaons-warming
closet, broiling hearth, &c, &C. The broilins
hearth is of the most noticeable features of this
remarkable stove, There never has been, to our
knowledge, any broiling fixture that really
isfactory in its operation The proprietors of this
stove have been conducting series of experiments
upon brOiling, elicting some valuable facts and
sulting ia the invention OF gridiron adapted to
this stove, which has been secured by letters patent
and is of the most admirable things of the kind
we ever saw-hroiling without smoke, and keeping
the GOALS ia a constant glow. We always glad
to do Justice mechanical imI royements and es-
pecitlly such contribute largely the general
good. as the one above mentioned.
The Economist, whit is r:ssndih such large
sule, will be fund only at SCANTLIN Il STE
PHENStS, Main ST., between Water and First,
Evansville, Ina. mart