The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-07-03
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YRe Economist.

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THVHES STGP@R HIS T.EHFUN' TEE
II first premiums at every Fair where it has
been exhibited. At the South- Western Indiana
District Fair, held here October, 1859, there were
but two premiums offered for cooking stoves-One for
the best wood cooking stOve,and for the bat coal
cooking stove The Economist took the FIRST
PREMIUM FOR THE BEST COOKING 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 1859.
In no branch of mechanical art has there
bGen more apparent advance than in man.
utacture of stoves. 1t is but few years since
the very name was a novelty, representing
huge, shapeless structure, almost devoid of
ornament, These have gradually given place
To Fatterns,2f grace and utility until the varieties
our markSsss 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 IL s-hore substantial qualities
desirable. This ~ - more especially have been
the case in refersCxr to cook stoves-ln article Of
domestic economy shat has more to do with scodng
wives and CrOtCheIy servants than most people
agine. The public have long sought an improve
in this article and believe ready to pay
any reasonable price for cooking stove if it only
possesses the merits of size, weight, convenience,
durability, economy, aud perfection of manutactur
These qualities to he possessed most fully in
out the past season, by Messrs. TreadweIl, Perry
& Norton, of Albany. We heard much of this
stove, and it looked so much like stove intended
for use, that concluded to try them, and the
result of the experiment convnces us that the
promoters, in their determination make the best
store in the t1orld have succeeded. We regard the
Economist possessing all the merits above
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
its name in durability and the use of fuel. Among
the many conVeniences attached to 1t, may be men
toned large oven, with hooks arranged for sus-
pending meats while roasting. A copper water
tank, holding from II to % gallons-warming
closet, broiling hearth, dc, &c. The broiliug
hearth il of the most noticeable features of this
remarkable stove. There never has been, to our
knowledge, any brUiling xture that really sat
isfactory its operation. The proprietor5 of this
stove have been conducting series of experiments
upon broing, elicting valuable facts, and re-
sulting in the invention Of gridron adapted to
this stove which has been secured by letters patent
and is of the most admirable things of the kind
ever saw-broiling without smoke, and keeping
the Goals in 1 constant glow We always glad
TO do Justice mechanical inn rovenlents, and es-
pecialy such contribute largely the general
good, az the above mentioned.
The Economist, whiC is commanding such large
sale, will be found only at SCANTLLN Il STE
PHENS'S, Main St, between Water and First,
Evansville, Ina marc