The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-01-19
Office of Udolpho Wolfe,

Office of Udolpho Wolfe,
soLE IMPORT. OF THE SCIIEDAM AROMATIC SCHNArps
% BEAVER STREET, New YORK, Nov 3. 8s.
To The People Of The Southern States
| When the pure medicinal restorative. now M
widely known Wolfe's SCHIEDAM SCHNApPS
was introduced into the world, under the endorse
mcnt of 1000 leading members Of the medical pro-
fesslon, some twenty years ago its proprietor was
well aware that it could not wholly escape the
penalty attached to new and useful preparations
He, therefore, endeavored to invest it with the
| strongest possible safeguard against counterfe;t
ers ana to render all attempts to pirate II difouit
and dangerous. 1t was submitted to distinguish
ed &c 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 OOO
physcans, including all the leading practitioners
In the United States, for purposes of experiment.
circular, requesting n trial of the preparation
| and report OF the result, accompanied each
specimen 1000 of the most eminent medca men
| III the Union promptly responded. Their opinions
OF the article were unanimously favorable Such a
preparation, they said, had long been wanted by
tn the profession, as no reliance could be placed on
the ordinary liquors Of commerce; nil of which
were more or less adulterated, and therefore
unit for medical purposes. The peculiar excel.
tence and strength Of the oil of juniper, which
formed one OF the principal ingredients of the
ocnnapps, together with an unalloyed character
OF the alcoholic element, give it, in the estimation
other difusive stimulant duretic tonic and
restorative.
These satisfactory credentials from professional
men of tho highest rank were pubsbcd in a
condensed form, and enclosed with each bottle
OF tho Schnapps, as one of the guarantees of it's
genuineness. Other precautions against fraud
were also adopted; patent was obtained for the
article, the label was copyrighted fac simie of
the proprietors autograph signature was attached
to each label and cover. his name and that of tho
preparation were embossed on the bottles a,ftl the
corks were scaled with hs private seal No article
had ever been sold in this country under the name
or Schnapps prior to the Introduction of Wolfe a
Schcdam Aromatic Schnapps, in 1851; and the
label was deposited. rs 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 unacOuainted
with the daring character of the pirates VINO prey
upon the reputation of honorable merchants by
vending doleterious trash under their name. that
the projections so carefully thrown around these
Schnapps would have precluded the introductons
ana sale OF counterieits. They seem, however,
9niy TO nave simulated the rapacity of mposters.
Inc trade mark OF the proprietor has been stolen:
the endorsement which his Schiedam Aromatic
Schnapps alone received from the medical pro-
fession has been claimed by mendacious humbi,rs:
his labels an bottles have been initiated his ad
vertisements paraphrased his circulars copied.
and, worse than all, dshonorable retailers after
nave nave hiicd them up with common gin, the most
deeterlous OF all liquors. and thus made his name
and brand cover for poison.
The public the medical profession and the sick
FOR whom the Schedam Aromatic Schnapps ia
prescribed as remedy, equally interested with
tho proprietor in the detection and suppression of
these ncfarlous practices. The genuine article
manufactured at the establishment of tho under.
signed, in Schiedam, Holland, is distilled from a
barley OF the finest quality. and favored with an
essential extract of the berry of tho Italian
juniper, of unequalled purity. By process un-
known i'll the preparation of any other liquor, it is
treed from every acrimonious and corrosive ele-
mcnt.
Complaints have been received from the leading
pnysicians and families in the Southern States,
OF the sale of cheap limitations of the Schcdam
Aromatic Schnapps in those markets. and travel
ers who are in the habit Of using it an antidoto
to the baneful influence of unwholesomo river
water, testify that cheap gin put up in Schicdam
bottles, Is frequently palmed off upon the unwarv
lhe!agents OF the undersigned have been requested
TO institute inquiries on the subject, and to for
ward to him the names Of such parties as they
may ascertain to be engaged in the atrocious
system OF deception. In conclusion, the under
signed would say that he has produced, from under
tho hands of the most distinguished men of
science in America, proofs unanswerable of the
purity and medicinal excellence of the Schedam
AROMATIC Schnapps; that he has expended many
Thousand dollars in surrounding it with guarantees
and safeguards, which ho designed should protect
the public and himself against fraudulent mita-
tIons; that he has shownit to be the only liquor in
| the world that can be uniformly depended upon
as inatuituTated; that he has challenged invcsti.
CATION, analysis comparison, and experiment in
al IT'S forms; and from every ordeal the prepa-
ration which bears his name, seal and trade mark
has como off triumphant He, therefore, feels it q
duty he owes to his fellow citizens generally to
the medical profession and the sick, to denounce
and expose the Charatans who counterfeit these
evidences of identity, and ho calls upon the press
and tho public to aid him in his efforts to remedy
SO great an evil.
The following letters and certificates, from the
leading physicians and chemists of this city, will
prove to the reader that all goods sold bv the
undersigned arc all they represented to be.
UDOLPHO WOLFE.
feel bound TO say, that regard your Schnapps
as being, in every respect, prc-cmincntly pure,
and deserving of medical patronage AT ali events,
1t Is the purest possible article of Holland Gin,
heretofore unobtainablo; and, as SUCH may be
safely prescribed by ply ysic;ans.
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