The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-12-11
aT aaas e 5lg asls|,I'a aoIpss Wolfe, q

"a BEAVER STREET, NEW YORK, Nov. 8, '68.
TO The People of The Southern Ssutesy1 sd
When the pure medicinal restorative.
now 80 widely known as WOLFE'S sCHIE-
DAM SCHNAPTe, was introduced into the
world, under the endorsement Of 1000
leading members of the medical profess
sion, some twenty years ago, it's proprie-
tor was we'll aware that it could not wholly
escape the penalty attached to all new and
useful preparations. He, 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 tho purcst spirit ever
manufactured. Its purity and properties
having becn thus ascertained, samples of
tho article were forwarded to 10, 900 physi.
clans, including all the leading practition-
ers In the United States, for purposes of
experiment. circular, requesting trial
OF the preparation and report of the re-
suit, accompanied each specimen. 1000
OF the most eminent medical men in the
ASoPohNCu. 1uelT OplulOub
OF the article were unanimously favorable.
such preparation, they said, had long
boen wanted by the profession, as no reli-
anco 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
e&cellenco 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
clement, give it, in the estimation of the
FACULTY, a marked superiority over every
tonic and restorative.
Inese satisfactory credentials from pro-
1essional mon OF tho highest rank were
pupnshed 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,
q Jdc stnUe of the proprietors autograph
signature was attached to each label aud
cover, his name and that of the prepara-
ton wero embossed on the bottles, and the
corks werc 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, in 1851; .snd the label was
deposited, as his trade mark, in the United
States District Court for the Louthern 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
rious trash undor their name, that the
projections so carefully thrown around
these Schnapps would have precluded the
lntroductlons 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
mcnts paraphrased, his circulars copied.
and, worse than ell dishonorable retailers
after disposlng OF tho genuine contents of
his bottles, have filled 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
tho sick, for whom the Schiedam Aromatic
Schnapps is prescribed as remedy. are
equally interested with the proprietor in
the detection and suppression of these ne
farious practices. The genuine article,
manufactured at the establishments 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 q process unknown in
the preparation of any other liquor, it is
freed from every acrimonious and corro-
sive element.
Complaints have been received from the
leading physicians and families in the
Southern States, of tho sale of cheap imi-
tations of the Schiedam Aromatic
Schnapps i'll 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 cheap gin,
put up in Schiedam bottles, is frequently
palmed off upon the unwarv. 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
conclusion, the undersigned would say
that he has produced, from under the
hands of the most distinguished men of
science i'll America, proofs unanswerable
of tho purity and medicinal excellence of
tho 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
limitations; that he has shown it to bo the
only liquor in the world that can be uni
fOfmly depended upon as unadulterated:
that he has challenged Investigation.
analysis, comparison, and experiment in
all its forms; and from every ordeal the
preparation which bears his name, seal
and trade mark, has come off triumphant.