The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-04-10
ENe Economist.

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~ 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 best coal
cooking stove The Economist took the FIRST
PREMIUM FOR THE BEST LOOKING STOVE
FoR WOOD. Rocker, klusman A Go took the nrst
premium for their cooking stove for coal No other
premiums offered. The large silver medal was
aw iric,i to the Economist the New York State
Fair and The first premium at the United States
Far held ut ChicagS and twelve other State and
County FAIRS ia 1852
IN branch of mechanical arr has Their.
ia-n IA more apparent advance than in tine man
ntactnre "t stoves. 1t is but few years since
the very name novelty, representing a
hinge sltarelHs structure, almost rs deyuid OF
USE As ornament, These i;.ye gradually given place
to patterns OF grace and utility until the varieties
our markets present have almost exhausted
the vocabulary of names and the different phases
the metal is made to assume, would astonsh old
Vulcan himself. In style and finlsh the improve
ment has been real, leaving nothing to be desired
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 cas- in reference TO cook stoves--an article of
domestic economy that has more to do with scolding
wives and crotcheIy servants than most people i'm
asgine. The public have long sought an improve
ment in this article, and We believe ready pay
any reasonable price for cooking stove, if it only
Possesses the merits of size, weight convenience,
durability, economy, and perfection of nanuact ure
These qualities to be possessed most fully in
the Econ ,mist-a new stove, perfected and brought
& 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 convinces that the
prOprietars in their determination to make the best
store ia the .gorid, have succeeded. We regard the
Economist possessing all the merits above
merate,i-as the great stove OF the day-ar in adj
vance of anything ever attempted i'll the line of
stoves, perfect in all its appointments, and true to
its name in durability and the of fuel. Among
the many conNeniences attached to 1t, may be men
TONED large with hooks arranged, for
pending meats while roasting. 4 copper water
tank, holding from II to . understanding
closet, broiling hearth, DC, &C. The broiline
hearth is of the most noticeable features of this
remarkable stove. There never has been, to our
know ledge, any brOing Xtmre that really
isiactory in its operation. The proprietors of this
stove have been conducting series of experiments
upon broilipg, elicitiug valuable facts and
sulting in the Invention of a gridiron adapted to
this stOye which has been secured by letters patent,
and is of the admirable things of the kind
We ever slw-broiling without smoke, and keeping
the Goals III a constant GLOW. We always glad
10 do justice to mechanical improvements, and es
peciay such contribute so largely to the general
good, the one above men tioned.
The Economist, who is commanding such large
sale, will be fouIsd oHIg at SCANTLIN u STE
PHENSS, Main ST., between Water and First, |
Evansville, Ina. mart