The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-07-07
TIE Economist

P2bAAS S4O RsES As4 n EsT~ THE
n 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 best coal
cooking stove. The Economist took the FIRST
PREMIUM FOR THE BEST LOOKING STOVE
FOR WOOD. Rocker, Klusman DC Co took the first
premium for their cooking stove for coal. No ether
premiums 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 State and
County Fairs in 1859.
In branch of mechanical art has there
been more apparent advance than in the
ufacture of stoves. It is but a few years since
the very name was novelty, representing a
huge, shapeless structure, almost as 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 to assume, would astonsh 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 10 have beer,
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 an improve
ment in this article and we believe ready to pay
reasonable price for cooking stove, if it only
possesses the merits of size, weight convenience,
durability, economy, and perfection of manufactur
These qualities to be possessed most fully in
the Econo mist-a new stove, perfected and brought
out the past season, by Messrs Treadwel, Perry
& Norton, of Albany We heard so much of this
stove, and it looked so much like stove intended
for use, that we concluded to try them, and the
result of the experiment couvinces that the
proDrlet9rs, in their determination to make the best
store in the tcorld, have succeeded. We regard the
Economist as possessing all the merits above
merated-as the great stove OF the day-far in adj
of anything ever attempted in the line of
Stoves perfect in all its appointments, and true to
its name in durability and the of fuel. Among
the many cOnveniences attached to it, may be men
toned large oven, with hooks ged, for sus-
pending meats while roasting. copper
tank, holding from IL to % gallons-warming
closet, broiliug 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 really sat
sfactory in its operation. The prUprietors of this
stove have been conducting series of experiments
upon broiling, eliciting valuable facts and re-
sulting in the invention of gridiron adapted to
this stove which has beer secured by letters patent
aud is of the most admirable things of the kind
We ever saw-broiling without smoke, and keeping
the Goals in a constant glow. We always glad
to do justice to mechanical imr rovements and es-
pecally such contribute largely to the general
good, AS the one above mentioned.
The Economist, while h is commanding such large
sale, will be found only at SCANTLIN q STE
PHENsS, Main ST., between Water and First,
Granville Inc mars