The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-01-05
Office of UdolDho Wolfe,

SOLE IMPORT. OF THE ScHIEDAM ARoaIATIc SCnNApps
% BEAVER STREET, New York, Nov. 3, '6s.
To The People Of tie Southern States.
When the pure medicinal restorative now so
widely known as Wolfe's SCHIEDAM SCHNAPPS,
was introduced into the world under the endorse
n>ent of 4, 600 leading members of the medical pro
fession, some twenty years ago, its proprietor was
well aware that it could not wholly cscapo the
penalty attached to new and useful preparations
He therefore, endeavorod 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 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. 600
physicians including all the leading practitioners
IN the United States, for purposes of experiment
circular, requesting a trial of the preparation
and report Of the result, accompanied each
specimen. 1000 of the most eminent medic csl men
In the Union promptly responded. Their opinions
of the article were unanimously favorable Such a
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 moro or less adulterated, and, therefore,
unit for medical purposes. The peculiar excel
ienee tn and strength OF the oil of juniper, which
formed one OF the principal ingredients of the
Schnapps. together with an unaIloyed character
OF tho alcoholic element, give it, III the estimation
OF the faculty, marked superiority over every
other diifusive stimulant as diuretic, tonic and
restorative.
These satisfactory credentials from professional
men OF the highest rank were published in q
condensed form, and enclosed with each bottle
OF the Schnapps, as one of the guarantees of it's
Senuineness. Other precautions against fraud
were also adopted; patent was obtained for the
article, the label WAS copyrighted fac si,nle of
the propriotor's autograph ignature was attached
to each label and cover, his name and that of the
preparation were embossed on the bottles, and the
corks were sealed with his private SEAL No article
had ever been sold in this country under the ma mo
OF Schnapps prior to the introduction of Wolfe .
SGnedam i"hs Aromatic schnapps, in 1851; and the
United States District Court for the Southern Dis
trict of New York during that year.
II might be supposed, by persons unacquainted
with the daring character of the pirates who prev
upon the reputation of honorable merchants by
vending deleterious trash under their name that
the projections so carefully thrown around these
Schnapps would have precluded the introductions
and sale of counterfeits. They seem, however,
only to have stimulated the rapacity of impos. crs
Inc trade mark of tho proprietor has been sto en
the endorsement which his Schiedam Aromatic
Schnapps alone received from the medical pro-
fession has been claimed by mendacious humbugs;
his labels an bottles have been initiated, his adj
vertisements paraphrasod, his circulars copied,
and, worse than ell, dshonorable retailers, after
disposln8 OF the genuine contents of his bottles
nave hiied them up with common gin, the most
deieterious of all liquors. and thus made his namo
and brand a cover for poison.
Ihe public, the medical profession and the sick
Tor whom the Schiedam Aromatic Schnapps is
prescribed as remedy are equally Interested with
the proprietor in the detection and suppression of
these nefarious 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 the Italian
juniper, OF unequalled purity. BY process un-
known In the Preparation OF any other liquor, it is
freed from every acrimonious and corrosive ele-
ment
Complaints have been received from tho leading
physicians and families in the Southern States,
of the sale Of cheap limitations of the Schiedam
Aromatic Schnapps in .!lose markets; and travel
ers, who are in the habit Of using it antidote
to the baneful influence Of unwhoesome river
water, testify that cheap gin, put up in Schiedam
bottles, is frequently pamed off upon the unwary.
Ihe'agents OF the undersigned have beenrequested
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 atrocous