The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-03-12
Tee Economist.

T%UfES SFOb.E -H.9S IA EVN" TINE
n first premiums at every Fair VIII ere il has
been exhibited. At the South Western Indiana
District Fair, held here October, 1882 there were
but two premiums offered for cooking stoves-one for
tile best wood cooking stove, and for the best coal
cooking stove. The Economist took the FIRST
PREMIUM FOR THE BEST COOKING STOVE
FOR WOOD. Rocker, Klusman h Co took the first
prelnum 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
FAR ana the hrst premium ut the United States
Fair held at Chicago. and twelve other State and
County Fairs in 1859. IL a..5i5 81 .s.i
In no branch of mechanical art has there
been more apparent advance than in the man
ufacture of stoves. 1t is but a few years since
the very name was novelty, representing
huge, shapeless structure, almost devoid of
use as ornament, these nave 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 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 case in reference to cook stoves-an article of
domestic economy that has more IL do with scoding
wives and cTotchoty servants than most people i'm
asiue. The public have long sought an improve
mcnt in this article, and believe ready pay
any reasonable price for a cooking stove, if it only
possesses I he merits of size, weight. convenience,
durability, economy, AMI perfection of manufacture
These qualities seem to be possessed most fully in
the Econ miSt--a new stove, perfected and brought
out the past season. by hIessrs. TreadweII, Perry
II Norton, Of Albany. We heard so nluch of this
stove, and it looked much like stove intended
for "se, that concluded TO try them, and tho
result of the experiment. cuuvnces that the
proprieteTs, in their determination to make the Gest
store 10, tie ,tort, have Succeeded We regard the
Economist possessing all the merits above emu
meratetlas the great stove OF the day-tar in AL
vance OF anything attempted in the line OF
stoves, perfect i'll all its appointments, and true to
its name in durability and the use of fuel. Among
the many cOnvenienccs .ttached TO 1t, may be mem
toned a large oven, with hooks arranged Tor sus-
pending meats while roasting. A COPPER
TANK holding from II to % gatllons-warming
closet, broiing hearth, DC, dc. Tle broiling
hearth is of the most noticeable features of this
rcnlarka Bile stove There never has been, to our
knowledge, any broiling fixture that really sat
isiactory in its operation. The proprietors Of this
stove have been conducting series of experiments
upon broiling, ecitng some valuable facts, and re
Sulting In the invention OF "a ssridron adapted
this stove, which has been se,ure 10y letters patent,
and is OF the Iuost admirable things of the kind
saV-broilinis without smoke, aud keeping
the Goals in 4 constant glow. We always glad
to do Justice mechanical inn rtyenents, and
pectliy such contribute largely To the general
good, as the one above mentioned.
The Economist, which is commanding such large
sale, will be fund only at SCANTL1N L STE
PHEES'S, Main 81, between Mater and First,
Evansville, ina. . .... mart