The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-01-08
Office of Udolpho Wolfe.

SOLE IMPORT OF THE SCHIEDAM AROMATIC SCHNAPPS
% BEAVER STREET, New YORK. Nov. g. 'GS
70 The People OF the Southern States
When the pure medicinal restorative now so
widely known as Wo!fe's SCHIEDAM SCHNAPPS,
was introduced into the world, under the endorse
ment OF 1000 leading members of the medical pro-
iesslon, some twenty years ago. its proprietor was
well aware that it could not wholly escape the
penalty attached to new and useful preparations
lie, therefore, endeavorcd to invest it with the
strongest possible safeguard against counterfeit
ers, and to render all attempts to pirate it difficult
ana dangerous. 1t was submitted to distinguish
ed chemists for analysis, and pronounced by them
tho purcst spirit manufactured It's purity
ana properties having been thus ascertaincd,
samples Of the article forwarded to 10 900
physicians, including all the leading practitioners
IN tho United States, for purposes Of experiment
circular, requesting trial of the preparation
ana report of the result, accompanied each
specimen. 1000 OF the most eminent medical men
IN the Union promptly responded. Their opinions
preparation, they said, had long been wanted by
the profession, rs no reliance could be placed on
the ordinary liquors OF commerce; all of which
were more less adulterated, and, therefore.
unfit for medical purposes. The peculiar excel
lence and strength of the oil OF juniper, which
formed one of the principal ingredients of the
Schnapps, together with all unalloyed character
OF the alcoholic element, give it, ill the estimation
OF the faculty, Il marked superiority over every
other diffusive stimulart diuretic, tonic and
restorative.
These satisfactory credentials from professional
men of tho highest rank were published in a
condensed form, and enclosed with each bottle
vi tiie ocnNappS, as one OF the guarantees of its
genuinenoss Other precautions against fraud
were also adopted; patent obtained for the
article, the label was copyrighted, fac simlc of
the prOprietor's autograph signature was attached
to each label and cover, his name and that of tho
preparation were embossed on the bottles and the
corks were sealed with his private seal. No article
had ever been sold III this country under the name
OF Schnapps prior to the introduction of Wolfe's
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 unacquaintcd
with the daring character of the pirates who prey
upon the reputation of honorable merchants by
vending deletcrious trash under their name, that
the projections carefully thrown around these
Schnapps would have precuded the introductions
and sale OF conntcrfeits. They secm however,
only to have stimulated the rapacty of imposters.
The trade mark of tho proprietor has been stolen:
the endorsement which his Schiedam Aromatic
Schnapps alone received from the medical pro-
fcssion has been claimed by mcndaco humbugs;
his labels an bottles have been initiated, his ad
Vcrtisements paraphrased, his circulars copied,
and, worse than all, dishonorable retailers after
disposing of tho genuine contents of his bottles,
have tiled them up with common gin, the most
deleterious OF all liquors. and thus made his name
ana brand a cover for poison.
The public, the medical profession and the sick.
Tor whom the Schiedam Aromatic Schnapps is
prescribed as remedy, are equally interested with
tho proprietor in the detection and suppression of
these nefarious practices. The genuine article.
manufactured at the establishments of the under
signed in Schiedam, Holland, is distilled from a
O"iioy " lHo HHesC puauty, anu HaVOreQ 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 Gle
ment
Complaints have been received from the leading
physlcians and families in the Southern States,
of the sale of cheap limitations of the Schedam
Aromatic Schnapps in those markets.; and travel
ers, who are in the habit of using it as an antidote
to the banoful influence of unwholesome river
water, testify that cheap gin, put up in schiedam
bottles. frequently Dalmel off ba
Theagents of the undersigned have been requested
to institute Inquiries ON the subject, and to for
ward to him the names of such parties they
may ascertain to be engaged in the atrocious
system Of deception. In conclusion, tho under
signed would say that he has produced, from under
the hands of the most distinguished men of
science in America, proofs unanswerable of the
purity and medicinal excellence of the Schiedam
Aromatic Schnapps; that he has expended many
Thousand dollars in surrounding it with guarantees
and safeguards, which he designed should protect
the public and himself against fraudulent imita-
tions that he has shown il to be the only liquor in
the world that can be uniformly depended upon