The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-07-24
YXe Economist.

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TEEYSs STO P.E HAS TIA ER.N' THR
~ first premiums at every Fair where it has
been exhibited. At the South Western Indiana
District Fair, held here October, 1883, there wers
but two premiums offered for cooking stoves-one for
the best wood cooking and for the coal
cooking stove The Economist took the FIRST
PREMIUM FOR THE BEST COOKING STOVE
FOX WOOD. Rocker, klusman d Co took the first
premium for their cooking stove for coal. No other
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 1862.
been a more apparent advance than in the man
uiacture of stoves. Ii is but few years since
the very 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 to assume, would astonish old
Vulcan himself In style and finish, the improve
ment has been real, leaving nothing to Ice 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 to have beel
the In reference to cook stoves-an article Of
domestic economy thst has to do with Seeding
wives anu crotchely servants than most people i'm
agine. Tho public have long sought an improve
nent 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 manuactur-.
These qualities seem TO be possessed most fully in
the Econ ,mist-e new stove, perfected and brought
out the past season, by Messrs Treadwell, Perry
< Norton, of Albany. We heard much of this
stove, and it looked 50 much like stove intended
for use, that We concluded to try them, and the
result of the experiment convinces us that the
prourleters in their determination to make the best
store the igorEd, have succeeded. We regard the
Economist possessing all the merits above emu
nlerated--us tho great stove of the day-far i'll kd
vance of anything attempted in the line OF
stoves perfect in all its appointments. and true to
it's name in durability and the uss of fuel. Among
the many convenieuces attached to 1t, may be mem
toned largo oven, with hooks arranged for
pending meats while roasting. copper water
4 tank. holding from II to 25 gallOns-warming
closet, broiling hearth, dc, &c. The broiling
relnarkAble stove. There never has been, to our
knowledge, any broiling fxture that was really sat
sfactory in its operation. The prOprietors of this
stove have been conducting seriea Of experiments
upon broiling, elicitiug valuable facts, and
sultinS IN the invention of gridiron adapted to
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 u constant glow. We are always glad
to do Justice 10 mechanical imI rovemeuts and es-
pocially such contribute largely to the general
good, the one above mentioned.
The Economist, whiC is commanding such a largo
sale, will be found only at SCANTLIN q STE
PHENS'S, Main ST., between Water and First,
Evansville, InG marc