The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-11-13
0fiioe Of Udolpho Wolfe,
Sole IMPoRTEB OF THE

40 oIh'6h oihEbT, NEW 1ORh, NOV. D, 10.
Iolte People Of The Southern States
When the pure medicinal restorative,
now SO widely known as WOLFE'S SCHIE-
DAM SCHNAPPS,j WAS introduced into the
world, under tho endorsement of 1000
leading members of the medical profes-
sion, somo twonty years ago, its proprio-
tor was well aware that it could not wholly
escape the penalty attached to ali new and
useful preparations. He, therefore, en-
deavored to invest it with tho strongest
possible safeguard against counterfeiters,
and to render all attempts to pirate it diff
ficult and dangerous. 1t was submitted
to distinguished chemists for analysis, and
pronounced by them the purest spirit ever
manufactured. It's purity and properties
having been thus ascertained, samples of
the article were forwarded to 10, 200 physi-
clans, including all the leading practition-
ors in tho United States, for purposes Of
experiment. a circular, requesting trial
of the preparation and o report of the re-
suit, accompanied each specimen. 1000
of the most eminent medical men in the
Union promptly responded. Their opinions
of the article wore unanimously favorable.
Such preparation, they said, had long
been wanted by the profession, as no rcli-
ance could be placed on the ordinary
liquors of commerce; all of which were
more or less adulterated, and, therefore,
unfit for medical purposes. The peculiar
excellence and strength of the oil OF juni-
per, which formed one of the principal in
gredicnts of the Schnapps. together with
an unalloyed character of the alcoholic
element, give it, in the estimation OF the
faculty, marked superiority ovor every
other diffusive stimulant as q dluretic,
tonic and restorative.
These satisfactory credentials from pro-
fcssional men Of tho highest rank were
published in condensed form, and en-
closed with each bottle OF tho Schnapps,
as one of the guarantees OF its genuine
ness. Other precautions against fraud
were also adopted; q patent was obtained
for the article, the label was copyrighted,
aJdc sinae of the propriotor's autograph
signature was attached to each label and
cover, his name and that Of the prepara-
corks were sealed with his private seal.
No article had ever been, sold in this conn
try under the namo Of Schnapps prior to
the Introduction of Wolfc's Schiodam Aro-
matte Schnapps, in 1851; and the label was
deposited, as his trade mark, in the United
States District Court for the Southern Dis
trict OF New York during that year.
1t might be supposed, by persons unac-
quainted with tho 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
introductions and sale of counterfeits.
They seem, however, only to have stimu-
lated the rapacity of imposters. The trade
mark of tho 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.
after disposing of the genuine contents of
his bottles, have filed them up with COM
mon gin, tho most deleterious of all
liquors, and thus mado his name and
brand cover for poison.
Tho public, the medical profession and
tho sick, for whom the Schiedam Aromatic
oSohhPPo 10 ~ CoCilOco do q TeIuSuy, are
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, Eolland, is dis
titled from barley of the finest quality,
and favored with an essential extract Of
tho berry of the Italian juniper, OF une-
qualled purity. BY a process unknown in
tho preparation of any other liquor it is
freed from every acrimonious and corro-
sivo element
Complaints have been received from the
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 the habit of using it as an anti
dote to tho baneful influence of unwhole-
somo river water, testify that cheap gin,
put up in Schiedam bottles, is frequently
palmed of upon the unwary. The agents
Of tho undersigned have been requested to
institute inquiries on the subject, and to
forward to hlm tho names of such parties
as they may ascertain to he engaged in
the atrocious system of deception. In
conclusion, the undersigned would say
that he has produced, from under the
hands of the most distinguished mon of
science in America, proofs unanswerablo
of tho purity and medicinal excellence of
tho Schiodam Aromatic Schnapps; that he
has expended many thousand dollars in
surrounding it with guarantees and safe
guards, which he designed should protect
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