The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-08-04
LUCKLESS ALADDIN STOVE
Rich. PooF. and an Insurance Company Cos
spire to Grieve Pref. Atkinson.

Rich. Poor, and an Insurance Company Con-
spire to Grieve Pref Atkinson.
Prof Edward Atkinson's Aladdin stove. which
was stimulated to the cooking point by q kero-
sene lamp. and which was the foundation stone
Of. an educational cheap restaurant In this city,
has been carried OF to st. Barnabas's Mission
In Broome street. and In run there with gas
Jets When the professor hears Of this his
heart will be full of SORROW. for his invention Is
very dear to him; but the sorrow. It Is safe to
say. VIII not DO for the stove. The human
weakness which languidly refuses to cook .
dinner Ill night L. the matter for SORROW.
With his lamp stove Prof. Atkinson reduced
the cost of o dinner to q few cents. He found
that tough meats. cooked for long hours with
little heat In close confinement, became tender
and delicious. and that the vegetables for the
dinner could be beautifully cooked at the same
time with the meat. ono kerosene lamp supply
ing tho heat for the whole job. He found en-
thuHiAsts in Boston who would use the stove. A
price list was got out offering the stoves for sale.
Mr.. Atkinson camo to New York and leo
tured. Several of the faculty of Columbi Col
lego were interested. and the lectures were given
In one OF the college rooms. Tho professor
brought ono of his stoves with him so as to give
illustrations. and . good part OF fashionable New
York turned out to hear him.. Some people.
wishing expert opinions on the Atkinson theory.
brought their cooks along. The cooks threw up
their hands In horror at tho idea of preparing q
meal which couldn't be made ready for eating in
less than six hours. and II Prof. Atkinson had
any idea of getting his scheme In operation in
fashionable households he soon saw his mis-
take. High-priced meats and cooking ranges
"sre good enough i9r tho rich;
Theodore Havemeyer became interested. and
With money contributed BY him and other DO.
ItaEted. 1t was In a store at Ciarkson and
Hudson streets. and food was prepared in one
tdss was not so much to sell the food cooked
eoqo in and sec tho stove. learn the system.
the general Il Invitation TO come in and learn, but
and his stove when they found out how long II
to9k to prepare q meal. The argument that 1t
si sW h @Sast sa paiissins and tHG ieI msaI dS~n stove 90 S0 take q
oare of itself for the rest Of the time had no
EEtishs with them At all; The New England
Isit WAS, could not Dc sold.
70 the school children in tho hope OF getting q
s rood f %tsh ~ th s6a .c bbasy sent EsT cat 9bTbs nrbaoa 90
children preferred pastry and candy.
The New England Kitchen collapsed. Then
Mulberry street. II was a great success there.
but the insurance company, which issued poll.
fies on the property OF tho institution. heard OF
Ito siN-hour kerosene lamps and pronounced 1t
dangerous. The company ordered further use
btn discontinued. To aSUN reporter the matron
BEL; B9rnaoas's said yesterday: .
We had great success with the stove, and
would have liked 10 keep on with IT,. II cooked
tSod splendidiy, and, was everything that
p.Tot. Atkinson said 1t was. As an economy
Y was - great thing. and We used II right
tiong. Tho insurance people. hearing we had
u, made an examination and pronounced 1t dan
Ferous. They said that the lamps were so close
70 the stove that The heat was driven baCk into
thein, AMI that this might cause an explosion AT
my time. We therefore thought IL better "a
rive the stove mp, although, as | said before, we
we're very well satisfied with II and hated TO do
~. II Is now in our Broomo street mission,
Utica With gas lets. which Will 10 used in the