The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-03-09

IAt4A6 0A'O n 42e4 , 1sG n Few THE
~ first premiums at every Fair where it has
been exhibited. At the South Western Indiana
District Fair held here October 1859, there we're
but two premiums offered for cooking stovesone for
the best wood cooking stove and the best coal
cooking stove. The Economist took the FIRST
PREMIUM FOR THE BEST LOOKING STOVE
FOR WOOD. Rocker, Klusman q 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 1859.
In no branch of mechanical art has there
been moro apparent advance than in the man
ufacture of stoves. Ii is but few years since
the very name was novelty, representing
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 be desired
on 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 to do with scnlding
wives and crotchety servants than most people i'm
agine. The public have long sought an improve
ment in this article, and believe ready to pay
any reasonable price for a cooking stove, if it only
possesses the merits of size, weight, convenience
durability, economy, and perfection of tnarlufactre
These qualities to be possessed most fully in
the nomist-a new stove, perfected and brought
& Norton, of Albany. We heard Sc much of this
stove, and it looked so much like stove intended
for use, that We concluded to try them, and the
result of the experiment convinces us that the
proprietsrs in their determination to make the best
store ia the Soord, have succeeded. We regard the
Economist possessing all the merits above emu
merated-as the great stove OF the day-far in adj
vance of anything ever attempted in the line of
stoves, perfect in all its appointments and true to
its name in durability and the use of fuel Among
the many conveniences attached to it, may be mem
toned largo oven, with hooks arranged, for sus-
pending meats while roasting. A copper water
tank, holding from IL to 25 gallons-warmng
closet, broiling hearth, de-, &c. The broilng
hearth is of the most noticeable features of this
remarkable stove. There never has been, to our
knowledge any broilfng fixture that really sat
isfactory in its operation The proprietors Of this
stove have been conducting series of experiments
upon brOiling, elicting some valuable facts and
sulting in the invention of gridiron adapted to
this stove, which has been secured letters
and is of the most admirable things of the kind
we ever saw--broiling without smoke, and keeping
the Goals i'll a constant glow. We are always glad
to do justice to mechanical improvements, and es-
pecally such contribute largely the general
good, the one above mentioned. .Is
The Economist, which Is commanding such a large
sale, will be found only ut SCANTLIN q STE
PHENS'S, Main st., between Water and First,
Evansville, Ind. marc !