The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-11-17
ONCE Of UdOIpho Wolfe.
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/ 32 BtAFEn STE EET, NEw YoRK, Nov. 8. ,6S. "a
To tte People OF tte Southern States. & 81
When the pure medicinal festoratives
now so widely known as waI.RE,g gnaIE-
DAM soHNAPPS, was introduced into tine
world, under the endorsement of 200
leading members Of the medical profess
sion, some twenty years ago, it's proprie-
tor was well aware that it could not wholly
escape the penalty attached to all new and
useful preparations. He, therefore, en-
deayored to invest it with tho strongest
posslDle safeguard against counterfeiters,
and to render all attempts to pirate it DIFF.
hcult and dangerous. 1t was submitted
TO distinguished chemists for analysis, and
pronounced by them tho purest spirit ever
manufactured. Its purity and properties
having been thus ascertained, samples Of
the article were forwarded to 10 900 physi.
clans, including oil the leading practition.
ers in the United States, for purposes OF
experiment. A circular, requesting a trial
OF tho preparation and q 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 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 adulterated, and, therefore.
unit for medical purposes. The peculiar
| excellence and strength of the oil of iuni-
per, which formed one of the principal in
gradients of the schnapps. together with
an unalloyed character of tho alcoholic
element, give it, iii the estimation of tho
faculty, q marked superiority over every
other dlffusive stimulant as u d1urctic
tonic and restorative.
These satisfactory credentials from pro-
fessional men OF tho highest rank wero
puolshed In condensed form, and en-
closed with each bottle of the Schnapps
as one of the guarantees of its renuine,
ness. Other precautions against fraud
were also adopted; patent was obtained
for the article, the label was copyripbted
fac si'nue of the proprietor's autograph
signature was attached to each label and
cover, his name and that Of the prepara
tlon were embossed on the bottles, and the
corks were sealed with his private seal.
No article had ever been sold in this conn
try under the name of Schnapps prior to
the introduction OF Wolfe's Schiedam Aro-
matte Schnappss, in 1851; and the label was
deposited, as his trade mark, in the United
States District Court for the Southern Dis
trlct OF New York during that year.
IL might be supposed, by persons unac-
qualnted with tho daring character of tho
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 precluded the
lntroductions and sale of counter.eits.
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 Schedam
Aromatic Schnapps alone received from
the medical profession has been claimed
by mendacious humbugs; his labels and
bottles have been initiated, his ADVERTISE
ments paraphrasod, his circulars copied.
ana, worse than ALL dishonorable retailers.
after dlsposing OF the genuine contents of
his bottles, have tiled them up with COM
mon gin, the most deleterious of all
liquors, and thus made his name and
brand cover for poison.
The public, the medical profession and
the sick, for whom the Schiedam Aromatic
Schnapps is prescribed as a remedy, arc
equally interested with the proprietor in
the detection and suppression of these ne
farous practices. Tho genuine article.
manufactured at the establishment of the
undersigned, in Schiedam, Eolland, is dis
tiicu iIoLi u DhTlcy Oh the nneSt quality.
and favored with an essential extract OF
the berry of the Italian juniper, of une
qualled purity. By process unknown in
the preparation of any other liquor, il is
freed from every acrimonious aud corro-
sive clement.
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 arc in the habit of using it as all anti
dote to the baneful influence of unwhole-
somo river water, testify that cheap gin.
put up in Schiedam bottles, is frequently
palmed off upon the unwary. The agents
or 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 atroclous system of deception. In
conclusion, the undersigned would saw
that he has produced, from under the
hands of the most distinguished men of
science in America, proofs unanswerable
OF the purity and medicinal excellence of
the Schiedam Aromatic Schnapps; that he
has expended many thousand dollars in
surrounding it with guarantees and safe
guards, which he designed should protect
the public and himself against fraudulent
imltations; that he has shown it to DO the
only liquor in the world that can be uni
formly depended upon as unadulterated:
that he has challenged investigations
anaiysis, comparison, and experiment i'm
ali q fprD1a.