The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-07-09
Tee Economists
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TUWFES STOT-E HIS TAKEN" THE
II first premiums at every Fair where il has
been exhibited. At the South Western Indiana
District Fair held here October, 1859, there we're
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 LOOKING STOVE
FOR WOOD. Rocker, Klusman & Co took the first
premium for their cooking stove for coal. No other
premiums were 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 1852.
In no branch of mechanical art has there
boon moro apparent advance than in the
ufacture of stoves. 1t Is but few years since
the very name was novelty, representing a
huge, shapeless structure, almost devoid of
use 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 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 to have been
the in reference to cook stoves-an article of
domestic economy that has more to do with scolding
wives and crotcheIy servants than most people i'm
agine. The public have long sought improve
mont 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 manufacture.
These qualities seem to be possessed most fully in
the Econo mist-a new stove, perfected and brought
out the past season, by Messrs. Treadwell, Perry
& Norton, of Albany. We heard 30 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
proDrieters, in their determination make the best
store IN the lgorld, have succeeded. We regard the
Economist possessing all the merits above emu
merated-as the great stove OF the day-far in ad-
vance of anything attempted in the line of
stoves, perfect in all its appointments and to
its name in durability and the use of fuel. Among
the many conveniences attached to it, may be
toned 4 large oven, with hooks arranged, for
pending meats while roasting. copper water
tank, holding from II to 25 galOns-warming
closet, broiling HEARTH de-, &c. The broiling
hearth is of the most noticeable features of this
remarkable stove. There never has been, to our
knowledge, any broilng xture that really sat
isfactory in its operation The propretors Of this
stove have been conducting series of experiments
upon broilng, eliciting valuable facts, and
sulting 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 a constant glow. We are always glad
to do justice to mechanical improvements, and es-
peciay such contribute SO largely to the general
good, as the one above mentioned.
The Economist, whiC h is commanding such a largo
sale, will be found only at SCANTLIN STE
PHENS \, Main St, between Water and First
Evansville, Ina mart