The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-02-17
Office of Udolpho Wolfe.

sole IMPORT. OF THE ScHIRDA11 AROMATIC SCuNAPPs
"a BEAVER STREET, NEW YORK, Nov. 8. 90.
To H.e People Of the Southern States
When the pure medicinal restorative now so
widely known as Wolfe's SCHIEDAM SCHNAPPS,
was introduced into tho world, under the endorse
inent OF 1000 leading member OF the medical pro-
fession, some twenty years ago. it's proprietor was
we'll aware that it could not wholly escape the
penalty attached 20 new and useful preparations
fo, therefore, endeavored to invest it with the
strongest possible safeguard against counterfeit
ers, and to render all attempts to pirate it difficult
and dangerous. 1t was submitted to distineuisb-
Ell 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 10 600
physicians, including all the leading practitioners
In the United States, for purposes of experiment.
circular, requesting trial of the preparation
ana a report OF the result, accompanied each
specimen. 1000 Of the most eminent medical men
III 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 reliance could be placed on
the ordinary liquors of commerce.; all of which
were more or less adulterated, and therefore,
unht Tor medical purposes The peculiar excel
lence and strength of the oil of juniper, which
formed ono Of the principal ingredients of the
Schnapps. together with an unai!oyed character
OF tho alcoholic element, give it, in the estimation
OF the faculty, marked superiority over every
other diifusive stimulsnt duretic tonic and
These satisfactory credentials from professional
men OF tho highest rank were published in
condemned form, and enclosed with each bottle
OF tho Schnapps, as one of the guarantees of it's
genuincness Other precautions against fraud
were also adopted; patent was obtained for the
article, tho label was copyrighted, fac si,nie of
the pfoprletors autograph signature was attached
to each label and cover. his name and that of the
preparation were embossed on the bottles. and the
sorRs were sealed With his private seal; No article
had ever oeen sold IN this country under the name
Of schnappss prior to the Introduction of Wolfes
Schiedam Aromatic 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 unacauainted
with the daring character Of the pirates who prey
upon the reputation OF honorable merchants by
vending deleterious trash under their name that
the projections so carefully thrown around these
Schnapps would have precuded the introductions
and sale of counterfeits. They seem, however,
only to have stimulated the rapacity of imposters
The trade mark Of the proprietor has been stolen:
tho endorsement which his Sohiedsm Aromatic
Schnapps alone received from the medical pro-
fession has been claimed by no mendacious humbues:
his labels an bottles have been initiated. his ad-