The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-04-20
The Economist.

I#hHS STOB'E HES TAKEN TIE
- first premiums at every Fair wierr it has
been exhibited. At the South " estern Indiana
District Fair, held here October, 1889, there were
buttwo premiums offered for cooking stoVes-one for
the best wood cooking stoyend one for the best coal
cooking stove. The Economist took the FL RST
PREMIUM FOR THE REST COOKING STOVE
FOR WOOD. Rocker, Klusman n Go took the first
premium for their cooking stove for coal. No other
premiums were offered. The large silver medal
awarded to the Economist at the New York State
FAIR; aud the hrst premium at the United States
Fair held ut thicass. and twelve other Stale and
County Fairs in 1888.
la branch OF mechanical art mas there
5seu "a apparent advance than in the
uiacture of stuyJs. II is but Il few years since
the very naIne was novelty, representing a
hinge, shapeless structure, almost devoid of
a ornament, These have gradually given place
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
that point, but the severe competition in price,
which they have been subjected, has deprived
them of many of tho more substantial qualities
desirable. This seems more especially to have been
the in reference to cook stoyes-an article of
domestic economy that has more to do with scolding
wives and crotchety servants than most people I'M
agine. The public have long sought improve
in this article, and believe ready pay
any reasonable price for cooking stove, if it ouly
possesses the merits of size, weight, convenience,
durability, economy, and perfection of man uacture.
These qualities seem to he possessed most fully in
the Econ ,mist-a new stove, perfected and brought
out the past season. by Mossrs. TreadweII, Perry
& Norton, of Albany. We heard much of this
stove and it looked so much like Il stove intended
for use that concluded to try thenl and the
result of the experiment coHVinces that the
prupriet9rs in their dissemination to make the best
store tie ac0TId, have succeeded. We regard the
Economist possessing all the merits above u
nieTHted-',s The great stove of the day-iar ia ad
of anything ever attempted la the liue OF
stoves, perfect in all its appointments, aud true to
its in durability and the useSof fuel. Among
the many cOnveniences attached to may be n
toned : large oven, with hooks an.sed, for
uendiuU while A
tank, holding from IL To % gallons--warming
closet, br0iiing hearth, dc, &c. The broiling
hearth of the most noticeable features of this
remarkable stove. There has been,
knowledge, any bruiling fixture that really
isfactory in its operation. The prOprietors of this
stove have been conducting series of experiments
upon broilng, eliciing some valuable facts, aud re-
snlting in the invention oil giIdIrOn adapted to
this stove, which has been secured by letters patent
and is one the admirable things of the kind
saw-hroiliug without smoke, and keeping
the Goals in IA constant glow. We are always glad
y do Justice mechanical imI ruVeInents and
pccily such tribute largely to the general
good, as tIle one above toned.
The Economist, wh Ia IL commanding, such large
sale, will lie found only AT SGANTLiN & STE
PuENS'S, Main St, between Water and First,
Evansville, Inn. mars