The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-07-17
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PEHKS STOT.E HAS T.aHR.r' THE
A first premiums at every Fair where it has
been exhibited. At the Southwestern Indiana
District Fair, held here October, 1852 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
PREM UNI FOR THE BEST COOKING STOVE
FOR WOOD Rocker, klusman x 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 first premium at the United States
Fair held at Chicago. and twelve other Stale and
County Fairs in 1859.
In no branch of mechanical art has there
been more apparent advance than in the man
ufacture of stoves. It is but few years since
the very name was u novelty, representing a
huge, shapeless structure, almost devoid OF
use as 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 assume, would astonish old
Vulcan himself. In style and finish, the improve
mrnt has been real, leaving nothing TO be desired
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 case in reference to cook stoves-an article Of
domestic economy that has to do with scolding
wives and crotcheIy servants than most people i'm
agine- The public have long sought an improve
Inent in this article and we believe ready to pay
any reasonable price for cooking stove, if it only
possesses the merits OF size. weight, convenience
durability, economy, and perfection of Inanufactur,
These qualities to be possessed most fully ia
the Econ mist-a new stove, perfected and brought
4 Norton, of Albany. We heard much of this
stove, and it looked much like II stove intended
for use, that concluded to try them, and tie
result of the experiment convinces that the
prourieters, in their determination make the best
store The tcOrid, have succeeded. We regard the
Economist possessing all the merits above emu
nerated-as the great stove OF the day-far in al
of anything ever attempted in the line OF
stoves perfect in all its appointments, and true to
its name i'll 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 II to % gallons-warming
closet, broiling hearth, dc, &C. The broiling
hearth of the most noticeable features of this
remarkable stove. There never has been, to
knowledge, any brUiling Il xture that really sat
isfactory in its operation. The prOprietors of this
stove have been conducting series of experiments
upon broiling elicting valuable facts ard re-
suitlng in the invention of gridiron adapted to
this soye which has been secured by letters patent
aud Is one OF the most admirable things of the kind
we ever saw-broiling without smoke, and keeping
the Goals IN Il constant glow. We are always glad
to do justice TO mechanical inn rovements, and
peclaIly such as contribute largely the general
good, as the one above mentioned.
The Economist, W hiC b is commanding such large
sale, will be found only at SCANTLIN q SIZE
PHENS'S, Main St, between Water and First
Evansville, Inc mart