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To Jordan L. Mott, for a "Self supply Coal Stove, simple in 

 construction, of good appearance and burns well." It is the 

 same furnace combined with other improvements which has, 

 year after year since 1833 won the awards of the Institute. 



If memory serves I have repeatedly in conversation with you 

 stated that if I were to make a stove to be used only in my 

 kitchen or by those who had the mind to manage a complicated 

 affair, that it would be different from and necessarily more costly 

 than one for the many. My object has ever been to make a 

 stove that will meet the wants of the mass. In getting up a 

 new set of patterns, in all cases I aim to make the stove, not only 

 economical and efficient^ but so simple in management, that the 

 girl who arrives from Europe one day may use it the next. 



More than 25 years have passed since 1 commenced experi- 

 menting for the express purpose of constructing some mode by 

 which anthracite coal could be used by the mass; 10 years of 

 which period I continued my mercantile business, depending 

 upon the profits of that to aid in introducing a most valuable 

 fuel. When I commenced the stove business I was looked upon 

 by dealers of that day, as an interloper, I was so called, but few 

 of them would commune with or deal with me ; for the past 7 

 years I have been the oldest wholesale manufacturer in the city. 



For nineteen years I have been a competitor at the Fairs of the 

 American Institute ; and of the many persons who have ofiBicia- 

 ted as judges, scientific or practical, who have been changed 

 from time to time as the managing committee have changed, all, 

 all, have awarded credit to the stoves of my manufacture, 

 whilst others who have had their day have abandoned or ceased 

 to manufacture theirs. My invention has stood the test of time 

 every year adding new claims to its utility and importance. 



Two of the judges of the late Fair were dealers in stoves, not 

 those of my make, as I could not sell to them without interfer- 

 ing with those to whom I confine sales, and yet their report 

 under these circumstances is more flattering to me than many of 



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