The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-03-14


A first premiums at every Fair where it has
been exhibited. At the South Western Indiana
District Fair, held here October, 1859, there
but two premiums offered for cooking stoves-one for
the hest wood cooking for the best coal
cooking stove. The Economist took the FIRST
PREMIUM FOR THE BEST COOKING STOVE
FOR WOOD. Rocker, klusman X Co took the first
premium for their cooking coal. No other
premiums were offered. The large silver medal was
awarded u the Economist at the New York State
Fair and The first premium at the United States
Fair held AT ChSag~. aud twelve other State and
County Fans III 1903.
In branch u mechanical AZ has Their,
bsen a more apparent advance than in
uiacture OF stoves. II is but II lew years since
the very "A novelty, representing "a
huge, shapel'ss structure, aImost devoid of
use as ornament These have gradually given place
to patterns of grassland utility until the varieties
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
nient has been real, leaving nothing to be desired
on that pOint, but the competit in price,
TO which they have been subjected, has deprived
tlen OF many oil 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 more to do with scolding
wives and crOtchety servants than most people i'm
agine. The public have long sought improve
meut in this article and We believe ready to
any reasonable price for cooking stove, if it only
possesses the merits Of size, weight, convenience,
durability, economy, and perfection of Manufacture.
These qualities seem to be possessed most fully i'll
the Econ Imist-a new stove, perfected and brought
out the past season, by Messrs. TreadwelI, Perry
stove, and it looked 50 much like stove intended
for pse that concluded to try them, and the
result of the experiment convnCes that the
propretors, their determination make the best
store IA The trorid, have succeeded. We regard the
Economist as possessing all the merits above
merated-as the great stove OF the day-far in ad-
vance OF anything ever attempted i'll the line of
stoves, perfect in all its appointments and to
its name i'll durability and the use of fuel. Among
the many convenences attached to It, may be men
toned large oven, with hooks arranged, for sus-
pending meats while roasting. copper water
tank, holding FROM II to . galions-warming
closet broiiins hearth, dc, &c. The broiling
hearth is of the noticeable features this
remarkable stove. There never has been, to
knowledge, any brOilng xture that really
isfactory i'll its operation The proprietors of this
stove have been conducting series of experiments
upon broiing, eliciting valuable facts and
sulting in the invention OF gridiron adapted to
this stove which has boon secured by letters patent
and is OF the most admirable things of the kind
We ever saw-brOiiing without smoke, and keeping
the Goals in constant glow. We always glad
to do justice 10 mechanical inn rovements and
pecily such contribute SO largely to the general
good, the one above mentioned.
The Economist, whit II is commanding such a large
sale, VIII be fund only at SCANTLIN q STE
PHENS'S, Main ST., between Water and First,
Evansville, lnu. mart