The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-07-30
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FEHES STOTsAE HIS T.sRR.y~ THE
hrst premiums at every Fair where it ha.
District Fair, held here October, 1852 there were
but two premiums offered for cooking stOVes-one fol
the best wood cooking stove, and one for the best
cooking stove. The Economist took the FIRST
PREM UNI FOR THE BEST looking stow
FOR WOOD. Rocker, Klusman u Co took the frs
premium for their cooking stove for coal. Nc cthe
premiums were offered. The large silver medal wa
awarded to the Economist at the New York Stat
Fair and the first premium at the United State
FAR held at Chicago. and twelve othor State anc
County Fairs in 1852.
In no branch of mechanical art has Their
been more apparent advance than in the man
ufdcture of stoves. Ii is but few years sine
the very name was novelty, representing
huge, shapeless structure, almost as devoid {,
use as ornament, These have gradually given pIac5
to patterns of grace and utility until the varietie
our markets now present have almost exhausted
the vocabulary OF names; and the different phase
the metal is made 10 assume, would Rstonish oil
Vulcan himself In style and finish, the improve
ment has been real, leaving nothing 20 be desired
that point, but the severe competition in price
to which they have been subjected, has deprive,
them of many of the more substantial oualitie
desirable. This seems more especially to have bee
the case in reference to cook stCves-an article {
domestic economy that has more TO do with scoldin
wives and crotchety servants than most people i'm
agine. The public have long sought improve
ment in this article, and We believe ready pa
any reasonable price for cooking stove, If IL onl
possesses the merits of siZe weight, convenience
durability, economy, and perfection of manufacture
These qualities seem to be possessed most fully ID
out the past season, by Messrs. Treadwell, PERI
& Norton, of Albany. We heard so much of thf
stove, and it looked so much like stove intende.
for use, that concluded to try them, and TIA
result of the experiment conyinces us that tn
proDrIeters, in their determination to make the be-
store Ia the ioOrid, have succeeded. We regard tn
Economist as possessing all the merits above emu
merated-as the great stove OF the day-far in ad
vance of anything ever attempted in the line q
stoves, perfect in all its appointments, and true
its name in durability and the use of fuel. Anon
the many conveniences attached to it, may be men
toned large oven with hooks arranged, for sus
pending meats while roasting. copper waite
tank, holding from II to Is gallons-Warmin
closet, broiling hearth, dc, &c. The broiln
hearth il of the most noticeable features of thi
remarkable stove. There never has been, to GU
knowledge, any broiling fixture that really sat
isfactory in its operation. The propretors of thi
stove have been conducting a series of experiment
upon broilng eliciting some valuable facts and re
sulting in the invention of a gcidiron adapted T.
this stove which has been secured by letters patent
and is of the most admirable things of the kline
we ever saw-broiling without smoke, and keeping
the Goals in constant glow. We are always glat
to do justice to mechanical improvements and es
pecialy such contribute largely to the genera
good, as the one above mentioned.
The Economist, whiC Il is commanding such a larp
sale, will be found only at SCANTLIN q STE
Main ST., between Water and First
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