The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-12-06
Office of Udolnho Wolfe,
SOLE IMPORTER OF THE

SOLE IMPORTER OF THE
SCHIEDAM AROMATIC ScHNApPS,
% BEAVER STREET, New YORK, Nov. 3, '69.
To The People Of Tie Southern States.
When the pure medicinal restorative.
now so widely known az WOLFE'S SCHIE-
DAM SCHNAPPS, was introduced into the
world, under the endorsement of 200
leading members Of the medical profess
sion, some twenty years ago, its propric-
tor was we'll aware that it could not wholly
escape the penalty attached to all new and
useful preparations. He, therefore, en-
deavorcd to invest it with the 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 them the purcst spirit ever
manufactured. Its purity and properties
having been thus ascertained, samples of
tho article were forwarded to 10, 900 physi-
clans, including all the leading practition-
crs in the United States, for purposes of
experiment. a circular, requesting n trial
or the preparation and II report OF the re-
suit, accompanied each specimen. 1000
or the most eminent medical men in the
Union promptly responded. Their opinions
OF the article were unanimously favorable.
such a preparation, they said, had long
been wanted by the profession, as no reli-
ance could be placed OH the ordinary
liquors of commerce; all of which were
NOR more or or less adlulterated, and. therefore,
unit for medical purposes. Tho peculia +
excellence and strength of the oil of juni-
per, which formed one of the principal in
gradients 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 a dluretic
tonic and restorative.
These satisfactory credentials from pro-
fessional men Of tho highest rank were
published i'll condensed form, and ell
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,
q fac simile of the proprietor's autograph
signature was attached to each label and
cover, his name and that Of the prepara.
ton were embossed on the bottles, and the
corks were sealed with his private seal.
No article had ever been sold in this coun-
try under the name of Schnapps prior to
the introduction of Wolfes Schiedam Aro-
matte Schnapps, i'll 1851; and the label was
deposited, as his trade mark, in tho United
States District Court for the Southern Dis
trict of New York during that year.
1t might be supposed, by persons unac-
qualnted 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 go carefully thrown around
these Schnapps would have precluded the
introductions and sale of counterfeits.
They seem, however, only to have stimu-
lated the rapacity of imposters. 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 circulars copied
and, worse than all, dishonorable retailers,
atter disposing OF the genuine contents of
his bottles, have tiled them up with COM
mon gin, the most dcleterious of all
liquors. and thus made his name and
brand n cover for poison.
The public, the medical profession and
the sick, for whom the Schicdam Aromatic
Schnapps Is prescribed as remedy, are
equally interested with the proprietor i'm
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 n barley of the finest duality,
and flavorcd with an essential extract OF
tho berry of tho Italian juniper, of nne-
qualled purity. BY process unknown in
the preparation &C 2ny other liquor, IL i,
freed from every acrimonious and corro-
sive element.
Complaints have been received from the
leading physicians and families in the
Southern States, of the sale of cheap imi-
tations of the Schiodam Aromatic
Schnapps in those markets; and travellers
who arc in the habit of using it MS an anti
dote to the baneful influence of unwhole-
some river water, testify that cheap gin,
put up in Schiedan bottles, is frequently
palmed off upon the unwary. The agents
of the undersigned have been requested to
institute inquiries on the subject. and to
forward to him the names of such parties
as they may ascertain to be engaged in
the atrocious system OF deception. In
cconciusion, tho undersigned would say
that, he has produced, from under tho
hands OF the most distinguished men of
science in America, proofs unanswerable
OF the purity and medicinal excellence OF