The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-08-07
VRae Economies.

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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 stoves-one for
the best wood cooking stove land for the best coal
cooking stove. The Economist took the FIRST
PREMIUM FOR THE BEST LOOKING STOVE
FOR WOOD. Rocker, + usman & 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 1859.
In no branch OF mechanical art has there
baen more apparent advance than in the man
ufacture of stuves II is but few years siuoe
the very a novelty, representing Il
huge, shsPsless structure, almost devoid OF
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 difforent phases
the metal is made to assume, would astonsh old
Vulcan himself In style and finish, tine improve
mrnt has been real, leaving nothing to DO desired
that point, but the severe competition in price,
TO which they have been subjected, has deprived
them OF many of the substantial qualities
desirable. This seems more especially TO have been
the case IN reference 10 COOK stoYes-an article OF
domestic economy that has more to do with scoding
wives and crotchety servants than most people i'm
agiue. The pubic have long sought an improve
ment in this article and We believe ready to pay
any reasonable price for cooking stove, If 1t only
possesses the merits of size, weight, convenience,
durability, economy, and perfection OF manuiactIo.
These qualities TO be possessed most fully in
the Econ rmist-a new stove, perfected and brought
& Norton, of Albany. We heard much of this
stove, and it looked much like "a stove intended
for use, that concluded to try them, and the
result of the experiment cOnvinces that the
proUrIeters in their determination to make the best
store in the lC0rld, have succeeded We regard the
EcObOmist possessing all the merits above
merated--as the great stove OF the day-far in adj
vance of anything attempted in the line OF
stoves, perfect in all it's appointments and true to
its name in durability and the use of fuel. Among
the many conyeniences attached TO 1t, may be men
toned large oven, with hooks arranged, for
pending meats while roasting. copper water
tank, holding from II to 20 gallons-warming
closet, broing hearth, dc, &c. The broiling
hearth il of the most noticeable features Of this
remarkable stove. There never has been, to our
knowledge, any broiiug xture that really sat.
stactory i'll its operation. The prOprietors Of this
stove have been conducting series Of experiments
upon broiling, eliciting valuable facts and
sultiag In the invention of a gridirOn adapted to
this soSe which has been secured by letters patent
and is of the most admirable things of the Kind
saw-broiliug without smoke, and keeping
the Goals in a constant glow. We are always glad
to do justice to mechanical inn rovements, and es-
peciay such contribute largely to the general
good, as the one above mentioned.
The Economist, wht is commanding such large
SALE will be found only at SCASTLlN q STE
PHENS'S, Main ST., between Water and First
Evansville, Ina mars