The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-11-21
ONCE 81 Udolpho wolfe,
SOLE IlfPoRyER OF 1HI

nneh tne pure medicinal restOrat ?
now ;owidely known as WOLFE'S SCR;
DAM SCHNAPPS, WAS introduced into tt,.
world, under the endorsement OF OO)
leading members OF tho medical profess
sion, some twenty years ago, its proprie-
tor was well aware that it could not wholly
escape tho penalty attached to all new and
useful preparations. He, therefore, en-
dcavored to invest it with tho strongest
possible safeguard against counterfeitcrs.
and to render all attempts to pirate it diff
hcult and dangerous. 1t was submitted
TO distinguished chemists for ANALYSIS. and
pronounced by thom the purcst spirit ever
manufactured. It's purity and properties
having been thus ascertained, samples Of
tho article were forwarded to 1O, 900 phvsi-
clans, including all the leading practition-
ers IN the United States, for purposes of
experiment. A circular, requesting trial
OF the preparation and report of tho re-
suit, accompanied each specimen. 1000
OF the most eminent medical men in the
Union promptly responded. Their opinions
OF tho article were unanimously favorable.
such preparation, they said, had long
been wanted by the profession, as no reli-
ance could be placed on the ordinary
liquors OF commerce: all of which were
more or less adultorated, and, therefore,
unfit for medical purposes. Tie peculiar
excellence and strength of the oil OF iuni-
per, which formed one of the principal in
grodionts of the schnapps. together with
an unalloyed character of the alcoholic
element, give it, III the estimation of the
faculty, marked superiority over every
other diffusive stimulant as g. diuretic
tonic and restorative.
These satisfactory credentials from pro-
iesslohai men OF tho highest rank were
published in condensed form, and en-
closed with each bottle of the Schnapps.
as one OF the guarantees of it's genuine
ness. Other precautions against fraud
were also adopted; patent was obtained
for the article, the label was COPYRIGHTED.
aJdc sinae Of the proprietor's autograph
signature was attached to each label and
cover, his name and that OF the prepara-
ton we're embossed on the bottles, and the
corks were scaled with his private seal.
No article had ever been sold in this coun-
try under the name of Schnapps prior to
the introduction of Wolfe's Schicdam Aro-
matte Schnapps, in 1851; and the label was
deposited, as his trade mark, in tho United
States District Court for the Southern DIG
trict of New York during that year.
1t might be supposed, by persons unac-
quainted with the daring character of the
pirates who prey upon the reputation Of
honorable merchants, by vending delete
rious trash under their name, that the
projections so carefully thrown around
these Schnapps would have prccluded the
lntroductions and sale of counterfcits.
They seem, however, only to have stimu.
lated the rapacity Of impostcrs. The trade
mark of the proprietor has been stolen:
the endorsement which his Schiedam
Aromatic Schnapps alone received from
the medical profession has been claimed
by mendacious humbugs; his labels and
bottles have been initiated, his ADVERTISE
ments paraphrased, his circulara copied,
and, worse than all, dishonorable retailers,
after dieposing of tho genuine contents of
his bottles, have filed them up with COM
mon gin, the most deleterious Of all
liquors, and thus mado his name and
brand cover for poison.
Tho public, the medical profession and
the sick, for whom the Schiedam Aromatic
schnapps is prescribed as q remedy, arc
equally interested with the proprietor in
the detection and suppression of these ne
farious practices. The genuine article,
manufactured at the establishment of the
undersigned, in Schiedam, Holland, is dis
titled from barley Of the finest quality.
and favored with an essential extract of
the berry of the italian juniper, of uno-
qualled purity. By process unknown in
the preparation of any other liquor, it is
freed from every acrimonious and corro
sivo element.
Complaints have been received from tho
leading physicians and families in the
Southern States, of the sale of cheap imi-
tations of the Schiedam Aromatic
Schnapps in those markets.; and travellers.
who are in tho habit Of using it as an anti
dote to the baneful influence of unwhole-
somo river water, testify that cheap gin,
pnt up III Schiedam bottles, is frequently
pasmed off upon tho unwary. The agents
OF the undersigned have been requested to
Institute inquiries on the subject, and to
forward tn him tho names of such parties
as they may ascertain to be engaged in
tho atr0cious system Of deception. In
conclusion, the undersigned would say
that ho has produced, from under the
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