The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-03-26
The Economist.


IWLHES STOT.E MS TAKEN. THE
Az first premiums at every Fair where 1t has
been exhibited. At the South-Western Indiana
District Fair, held here October, 1859, there
but two premiums offered for cooking stovesone for
the best wood cooking for the beat coal
cooking stove. The Economist took the FIRST
PREMIUM FOR THE BEST LOOKING STOVE
FOR WOOD Rocker, Klusman Il Co took the first
premium for their cooking stove for coal No other
premiums offered. The large silver medal
awarded to the Economist at the New York State
Fair and the first premium ut the United States
Fair held at Chicago and twelve othor State and
County Fairs in 1869. .#
In no branch of mechanical art has there
bsen more apparent advance than in tue man
utacture OF stoves. 1t ia but few years siHce
the very name was novelty, representing
huge, slapsltsS structure, almost devoid of
use rs ornament These have gradually given place
to patterns of grce and 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 astonish 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 more especially to have been
tile case IN reference 20 COOK stoVesan article OF
domestic economy that has more to do with scolding
wives and crotcheiy servants than most people i'm
aglne. The pubic have long sought an improve
ment in this article and we believe are ready to pay
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 in
the Econ 'mist-a new stove, perfected and brought
& Norton, of Albany. We heard much of this
stove, and it looked much like u stove intended
for use, that concluded to try them, and the
result of the experiment cOnyinceS that the
proprietSTs, in their determination to make the best
The qsorId, have succeeded. We regard the
Economist 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
tho many cOnveniences attached to ii, may be men-
toned large oven, with hooks arranged, for
pending meats while roasting. copper wafer
TANK holding from II to % gallons-wstrming
closet, broing hearth, dc, &C. The broiling
hearth is of the noticeable features of this
remarkable stove. There never has been, to
knowledge, amy broiling fixture that was really sat
sfactory ia its operation. The proprietors of this
have been conducting series of experiments
upon broiling, eciting valuable facts, and re-
shifting 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
ever saw-broiling without smoke, and keeping
the Goals in u constant glow. We always glad
do Justice o mechanical i'm rrofements, and
pecilly such contribute aTg sly to the general
good, as the above mentioned.
The Economist, which is com andiz such large
sale, will be found only at SCAHTLIN 81 STE
PHENSS, Main St, between Water and First,
Evansville,