The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-08-13
Clerks oiIiee, Jnly 18th, 1860. - :
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THWES STO P-R H.zS TAKEN" TIE
Il first premiums ct every Fair where 1t has
been exhibited. At the Southwestern Indiana
District Fair, held here October, 1859, there
but two premiums offered for cooking stoves-one for
the best wood cooking for the best coal
cooking stove. The Economist took the FIRST
PREM UNI FOR THE BEST LOOKING STOVE
FOR WOOD. Rocker, Klusman d Co took the fret
premium for their cooking stove for coal. No other
premiums were offered The large silver medal was
awarded to the Economist ut the New York State
Fair and the FIRST premium at the United States
Fair held at Chicago, and twelve othor State aud
County FAIRS in 1859.
In no branch of mechanical art has there
been more apparent advance than in tne MAJ
ufacture of stoves. II is but a few years since
she very a novelty, representing O
huge, shapeless structure, almost devoid OF
ornament, These have gradually given place
patterns of grace aud 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 astOnieh old
Vulcan himself. In style and finish, the improve
mant has been real, leaving nothing to DO desired
ON that point but tue severe competition in price,
70 which they have been subjected, has deprived
them OF many of the more substantial qualities
desirable. This seems more especially to have bee
the cass in reference to cook stovesan article OF
domestic economy that has to do with scnldinR
wives and crotchey servants than most people i'm
agtue Tho public have long sought an improve.
neut in this article, and believe ready psy
any reasonable price for cooking stove, If 1t only
possesses the merits Of size, weight, convenience
durability economy, and perfection of manufacture
These qualities seem to be possessed most fully IN
the Ecou .mist-a new stove, perfected and brought
out the past season, by Messrs. Treadwell, Perry
i Norton, of Albany We heard much Of thfi
stove, and il looked much like a stove INTENDED
for use, that We concluded to try them, and tht
result OF the experiment couviuceg us that tht
proprIesrs in their discrimination to make the be-
store ia the lrorld, have succeeded We regard thu
Economist possessing all the merits above
merated-as the great stove of the day-fsr in ad
vance Of anything attempted in the line
Stoves perfect in all its appointments and true q
its name in durability and the use of fuel. Amon@
the many conyeniences attached to 1t, may be men
toned largo oven, with hooks arranged, for
peuding meats while roasting. A copper wata
tank, holding from II TO Is gallons-warmfni
closet, broiling hearth, dc, &C. The broilini'
hearth is the most noticeable features of thf
remarkable stove. There never has been, to GU
knowledge, any broiing xture that really sat
isfactory in its operation The prOprietors Of thi
stove have been conducting series of experiment
upon broilng, eliciting some valuable facts and re
sultng In the invention Of a gridiron adapted &
this stove which has been secured by letters patent
and is one of the most admirable things of the kin,
ever saw-brUiling without smoke, and ksepipf
the Goals in a constant glow. We are always RIa,
to do Justice to mechanical improvements, and es
pecally such contribute 50 largely to the genera
good, as the above mentioned.
The Economist, whit is commanding such larg
sale, will be found only at SCANTLIE q STE
PHEkS'S, Main ST., between Water and First
Evansville, InG mart