Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1867-10-10

ABOUT STovRs-Most everybody now.
days has TO so with stoves. This cold,
windy morning great many people are
putting up stoves, or wondering why
the stove man does not come and put up
the stove.
Stoves are comparatively OF recent
general use, though they were known In
this country as early as 1890. In that
year a Mr. Pettiboue OF Philadelphia,
was granted patent for a stove, which
claimed to be capable OF warming houses
by pure heated air. Petitioners stove
was soon after put up In the almshouse
at Philadelphia, and Drs. James and
Chapman, and several members OF Con-
gress gave testimonials OF its utility for
warming and ventilsting churches,
courts OF justice, hospitals, manufacto-
rles, &c. This was probably the first
nttsmpt TO use stoves, at least In this
country. From this time forward for
many years, the stove was confined to
public places, its use for warming pri-
vatr houses, or for cooking purposes not
having been thought OF. The long box
stove, capable OF taking three feet wood
was the only stove our ancestors knew
anything about. Cooking stoves have
come In nse within the last forty years.
The frst advance toward a cooking stove
was making the Franklin Stove with an
oven and the first that deserves the
name of s cooking stove was an oblong
affair having an oven running the whole
length, the door OF which WAS in front
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and having also boiler-hole and a
boiler on the back part OF the top near
the pipe. Then stove similar in ar
rangement, with swelling or eliptical
sides, WAS made, generally called the
nine plate stove but in Albany and Troy
it was known as the Philadelphia stove.
About the year 1872 cooking stoves
were made st Hudson from patterns
made by Mr.. HOxie, who was the first
to elevate the fire. box above the bottom,
This improvement was patented, and
was sustained in suits against parties
who In any way elevated fire from the
bottom. In Hoxie's cooking stove the
fire was made above aud upon the oven,
and he was the first who made any stove
In which the fame was made to descend
from the top to the bottom OF the oven.
In 1915, William T. James OF Lansing
burgh, afterward OF Troy, made the
stove known as tie James Stove"
which not only continued leading
cooking stove for nearly quarter OF a
century, but may yet be seen on board
Of small Eastern cOasting vessels, where,
being cheap aud durable, 1t supplies the
S,1a Of Iar An1 =,
probably better known as the Saddle
bags Stove" James O'Connel opened a
retail stove store in Troy as early as
1915.
The first heating OF houses by flues,
from anthracite furnaces, was accom-.
plished by Professor Johnson OF Phila-
del hia, about 1925. The Professor sue
Gee led In heating large house by
means of furnace in cellar, surround
ed by an air chamber OF brick work,
whence the gaseous products OF the
combustion were carried through the
building, passing through cylindrical
drains, on the first and third floors, and
ont at the top. This mode of warming
buildings rapidly grew into favor as our
people came 10 be well acquainted with
coal.
The ample supply Of wood in the
country was for many years in the way
OF the successful introduction OF stoves.
This fuel was almost at every mans
door, and houses were all supplied with
ample 1re-places. The cost Of preparing
wood for stoves was an item which
quite Offset any economic advantages
they had otherwise. And besides, peo-
pie were 10th to give up the cheerful
open fireplace for "a little black box in
the corner" as the stove was disparag-
ingly called. Even now, the West uses
few stoves compared with the East and
Eastern manufacturers make stoves ad-
justed to wood for the Western market,
while those for the market Of the Cen
trail and Middle States are nearly all
coal burners.
Troy as we have seen, was early In
the field as manufacturer of stoves,
and from the first has held the first rank
as s great stove producing city. 1t is
the first stove market in the Union, and
probably in the world. A single Troy
foundry paid in 1865 one-twentieth OF
the total tax collected by the govern
ment on stoves and castings. There are
larger foundries for general purposes in
Europe than any in the United States,
but the Clinton foundry here is the
largest stove foundry in the world
Troy Times,
will not some Of our old readers fur.
I nish sketch of the use OF stoves in
Rutland county, and the manufacture OF
them.
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