The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-09-03
TEE Economist.

/ II EGO u q
! TNVRES STO IsRs HIS T.4RR.E" THE
II first premiums at every Fair where It has
been exhibited. At the South Western Indiana
District Fair, held here October, 1859, there were
but two premiums offered for cooking stovesone for
the best wood cooking stove and for the bAst coal
cooking stove. The Economist took the FIRST
PREMIUM FOR THE BEST LOOKING STOVE
FOR WOOD. Rocker Klusman d. 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 ut the United States
Fair held at Chicago. and twelve other State and
County Fairs in 1853.
In no branch of mechanical art has there
bsen a apparent advance than Ia the man
ufacture of stoves. 1t is but a few years since
the very name was a novelty, representing a
huge, shapeless structure, almost as devoid of
ornament, These have gradually given place
patterns Of grace and utility until the varieties
markets present have almost exhausted
the vocabulary of names; and the different phases
the metal is made to assume, would astonish old
Vulcan himself. style and finish, the improve
ment has been real, leaving nothing to be desired
on that point, but the 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 case IN reference 10 COOK stoFes-an sTtele OF
domestic economy that has more to do with scodiug
wives and crotchety servants than most people i'm
agine. The public have long sought an improve
in This article, and We believe ready to
any reasonable price for cooking stove, If 1t only
possesses merits of size, weight, convenience,
durability, economy, and perfection of manufacture
These qualities seem to be possessed most fully 10
the Econ nlst-a new stove, perfected ana brought
out the past season, by Messrs Treadwoil, Perry
& Norton, of Albany. We heard go much of this
stove AMI it looked so much like a stove intended
for use that concluded TO try Them and the
result Of the experiment. couyinces that tbs
proprletsrs in their determination to make the best
store in the lg0rId, have succeeded. We regard the
Economist AZ possessing all the merits above EMU
merated-as the great stove Of the day--far in adj
vance of anything attempted in the line Of
stoves, perfect il all its appointments, and true 20
its name in durability and the use Of fuel. Among
the many conveniences attached to IT, may be men
toned a large oven, with hooks arranged, for sus-
pending meats while roasting A copper water
tank, holding from Il to 25 gallons-warming
closet, broiling hearth, dc, &c. The broilng
hearth is of the noticeable features of this
remarkable stove. There never iHs been, 70 CUT
knowledge, any broiling hxture that reall
isfactory in its operation The proprietOTs Of this
stove have been conducting series Of experiments
upon broilng, elicting valuable facts, and 70
snlting in the invention of gridiron adapted 20
this stove, which has been secured by letters patent
and is of the most admirable things OF the kind
we ever saw-broiling without smoke, and keeping
the Goals in a constant glow. We are alWayS gao
10 do justice 70 mechanical improvements anu &c
pecaly such contribute so largely to the general
good, az the above mentioned. +rz ri
The Economist, whiC is comma ndiHg such ltT 81
sale, will be found only at SCANILIN SIh-
PHENS's, Main ST., between Water AMI First,
Evansville, Ina 1l4Io