The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-05-17
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EEVffRS STOB'h HIN IN "a E-N" TN A.
u first premiums every Fair where it In.
been exhibited. Al the South " cstern Indiana
District Fair, held here OctobE, lS5H. there We're
but Two premiums offered for cooking stoyes-0le Tor
the best wood cooking stove,nnd for The best coal
cooking stove. The Economist took the FIRST
PREMIUM FOR THE BEST COOKING STOVE
FOR WOOD. Rocker, hlnsman a co took the first
premium for their cooking for coal. No other
premiums offered. The large silver medal
awarded to the Economist at the New York State
Fair. and the inst premium at the United States
Fair held at Chicago. and twelve other state and
County Fairs i'll 1889.
la no branch OF mechanical ant has thefc
t.0en a apparent advance than in tine man
uizcture OF stoves 1t is tut lew years since
the very name was "A novelty rsprcs-ntin.s- :,
huge, shapelcas structure, almost devoid OF
ornament, These have gradually given place
patterns OF grace aud utility until the varieties
our mAIkets now present have almost exhausted
the vocabulary of names and the different phases
the nlel;d is made to assume, would astonsh Old
Vulcan hioi,..lf. In style and finish the improve
ment has bern real, leaving nothing To b" desired
that point, but the severe competitions in price,
to which they have been subjected, has deprived
them of ma ny of the substantial qualities
desirable This seems more especially 10 have been
the in reference to cook stoveS-an article Of
domestic economy that hts more to do with scpdinl,
wives and erotclety servants than most people I'M
agine. The public have long sought improve
ment in this article aud believe ready to pay
any reasonable price for cooking stove, if il only
possesses the merits Of size, weight. convenience,
durability, economy, and perfection OF manufacture.
These qualities seem to lee possessed most fully i'll
the Eruu"misi-a new stove, perfected and brought
ont the past season, ly hessrs. Treadweli, Perry
Y Norton, of Albany. We heard much o. this
stove, and it looked so much like Il stove intended
for ,se, that concluded to try them, and the
result of the experiment conVinces Ia that the
pruIrietors in their determination to make the hest
store n, DE ,corLl, have succeeded. We regard the
Economist possessing all the merits above emu
merated-ts the great stove 81 the day-iar in adj
vance OF any thing attempted Ia tho line of
stoves perfect i'll all its appointments, and true to
its ia durability and the use of fuel. Among
the many conveniences attached to 1t, may be men
toned a large oven, with hooks arranged for sus-
pending meats while roasting. copper water
tank, holding from Il to - gallOns-warminS
closet, broiling hearth, Dc, &c. The broiling
hearth of the most noticeable features of this
remarkable stove. There never has been, to our
knowledge, any broiling fixture that was really sat
isactory III its operation. The prOprictOrs IF this
stove haze been conducting series of experiments
upon broiling, elicting valuable facts, aud re-
suItins ina the invention of a gridrOn adapted TO
this stove which has Lccn secured by letters patent
and is one OF the admirable things Of the kind
stw-broiling without smoke, aud keeping
the Goals in a constant glow. We are always glad
do justice to mechanical inn rOvcments, and cs-
pecially such Contribute largely to the general
good as the one above mentioned.
The Economist, white IA il cOnmaudins; such large
sIlr, vii! be found o@fy at SCANrEtN 4 STE-
PHEES'S, 8IaiH St, between Water aud First,
Evansville, IHd. mart