The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-11-19
Once OF tUdolpho Wolfe,
Sole IhiPoRrER OF THE
SoHIEDAM AROMATIC scHNAlPs,

When the pure medicinal restorative,
now so widely known as WOLFE'S SCHIE-
DAM SOHNAPPS, was introduced into the
world, under the endorsement OF 1900
leading members OF the medical profess
sion, some twenty years ago, its proprie-
tor was well aware that it could not wholly
escape the penalty attached to all new and
useful preparations. Ho, therefore, en-
deavored to invest it with the 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 wcre forwarded to 10, 900 phJsi-
clans, including all the leading practition-
ers in the United States, for purposes of
experiment. circular, requesting a trial
of the preparation and 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-
ancc could be placed on the ordinary
liquors of commerce; all of which were
moro 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
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 diuretic,
tonic and restorative.
These satisfactory credentials from pro-
fessional 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 its genuine
ness. Other precautions against fraud
were also adopted; patent was obtained
for the article, the label was copyrighted.
aJac simde 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 coun-
try under the name OF Schnapps prior to
the introduction of Wolfe's Schiedam Aro-
matte Schnapps, in 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-
quainted with the daring character of the
pirates who prey upon the reputation OF
honorable merchants, by vending delete
rlous trash under their name, that the
projections so carefully thrown around
these Schnapps would have precludcd 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.
after disposing of the genuine contents of
his bottles, have illed them up with COM
mon gin, the most deleterious of all
hi"oi9' aHd tHus ulduc nlS name ana
brand n cover for poison.
The public, the medical profession and
the 81. k, for whom the Schiedam Aromatic
Schnapps is prescribed as a remedy, are
equally interested with the proprietor in
the detection and suppression of these ne
farious practices. The genuine article,
manufactured ut the establish e ent 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 une-
qualled purity. BY process unknown i'm
the preparation of any other liquor, it il
freed from every acrimonious aid corro-
sive clement.
Complaints have been received from the
leading physicians and families in the
Southern States, of the sale of cheap imi-
tatlons OF tho Schiedam Aromatic
Schnapps in those markets; and travellers,
who are in the habit of using it as an anti
dote to the baneful influence of unwhole-
some river water, testify that choap gin.
put up in Schicdam 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 tho names of such parties
as they may ascertain to be engaged in
the atrocious system of deception. In
conclusion, the undersigned would saw
that ho has produced, from under the
hands of the most distinguished men of
science in America, proofs unanswcrable
of the nurity and medicinal nxcalIonoo