The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-03-24
Economist.

TGMfS ST0T.E HAS TAKEN THE
been exhibited. At the South Western Indiana
District Fair, held here October 1859, there were
but premiums offered for cooking stoves-one 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 IL 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
Ealr ana the nrst premium at the United States
Fair held at Chicago, and twelve other State and
Comfy Fairs in 1859.
In no branch of mechanical art has there
bVen "A more apparent advance than in man
ufacture of stoves. II is but a few years since
the very name was a novelty, representing a
huge, shapeless structure, almost devoid of
use AS ornament, These have gradually given place
to patterns of grace and.utity 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 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 have been
the case in reference TO cook stOYes-an article of
domestic economy that has more to do with scoding
wives and crotchely servants than most people i'm
agine. The public have long sought an improve
ment in this article, and believe ready pay
any reasonable price for cooking stove, if it only
possesses the merits of size, weight, con venience,
durability, economy, and perfection of manufacture.
These qualities seem to be possessed most fully in
the Econ .mist-a new stove, perfected and brought
s. Norton, of Albany. We hoard much of this
stove, and it looked so much like n stove intended
for tse, that we concluded to try them, and the
result Of the experiment cOuvinces that the
proprietars, in their determination to make the best
store ia the aGorId 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 attempted in the line of
stoves Perfec in all its appointments, and true to
its name in durability and the of fuel. Among
the many cOnveniences attached 10 1t, may be mem
toned u largo oven, with huOks arranged for
pending meats while roasting. copper
tank, holding from II to 70 gallons-warming
closet, brOiling hearth, &c, &c. The broiIing
hearth of the most noticeable features of this
remarkable stove. There has been, TO our
knoWl lodge, any broiling xture that really
sfactory in it's operation. The proprietors of this
stove have been conducting series of experiments
upon broiling, ecitng valuable facts, and re-
sulting In the invention 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-broiling without smoke, and keeping
the Goals in a constant glow. We are always glad
to do Justice to mechanical inn roVemeuts, and
pecially such contribute largely to the general
good, the one above men iOned. 55sf..- 4.
The Economist, whiC n is commanding such large
sale, will be found only at SOANTLIN Il STE
PHENS'S, Main ST., between Water and First,
Eyansville, ind. .. .5f.... -... mart