The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-01-17
Office of Udolpho Wolfe.

"a DEAVEH STREET, NEW YORK, Nov. g. '6S
To the People Of The Southern iStates
When the pure medicinal restorative now so
widely known as Wolfe's sCHIEDAM sCHEAPrS,
was introduced into the world, under the endorse
ment OF 4 600 leading members OF the medical pro-
fession, some twenty years ago, it's proprietor was
well aware that it could not wholly escape tho
penalty attached to new and useful preparations
lie, 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 distinguish
cd chemists for anal lysis, aud pronounced by them
tho purest spirit ever manufactured. Its purity
and properties having been thus ascertaiued
samples OF the article were forwarded to 10000
physicians, including all the leading practitioners
IN the United States, for purposes of experiment
a CIRCULAR, requesting trial of the preparation
and report of the result, accompanied each
specimen. 1000 of the most eminent medical men
i'll the Union promptly responded. Their opinions
Of the article were unanimously favorable. Such
preparation, they said, had long been wanted by
the profession, AZ no reliance could be placed on
the ordinary liquors Of cemmerce; all of which
were more or less aduterated, and, therefore,
ence and strength of the oil of juniper which
formed one OF the principal ingredients of the
Schnapps. together with an unalloyed character
of the alcoholic element give it, i'll the estimation
OF the faculty, marked superiority over every
other diffusive stimulant dIuretc, tonic and
restorative.
men OF tho highest rank were published in
condensed form, and enclosed with each bottle
genuinenoss Other precautions against fraud
were also adopted; patent was obtained for tho
article, the label was copyrighted, fac simue of
the proprietor's autograph signature was attached
to each label and cover. his name and that Of the
preparation were embossed on the bottles and tho
corks were sealed with his private SEAL No article
had ever been sold i'll this country under the name
OF Schnapps prior to the introduction of Wolfe's
Scmedam Aromatic Schnapps, in 1851; and tho
label was deposited, as 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 unacquainted
with the daring character of the pirates VINO prey
upon the reputation of honorable merchants. by
vending deleterious trash under their name, that
the projections so carefully thrown around these
and sale OF counterfeits. They seem, however,
only to have stimulated the rapa city of impoatcrs
The 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 mendacous humbups:
his labels an bottles have been initiated, his ad-
vertisements paraphrased, his circulars copied
and, worse than all, dishonorable retailers after
dlsposlng OF the genuine contents of his bottles,
nave hilcd them up with common gin, the most
dcleterlous OF all liquors. and thus made his name
anu brand cover for poison.
The public. the medical profession and the sick
for whom tho Schiedam Aromatic Schnapps is
prescribed as remedy arc equally interested with
tho proprietor i'll the detection and suppression OF
these nefarious practices. The genuine article
signed, in Schiedam. Holland, i'd distilled from
barley OF tho finest quality, and favored with an
essential extract of the berry OF the Italian
juniper, OF unequacd purity. BY process un-
known i'll the preparation Of any other liquor it is
freed from every acrimonious and corrosive e!e-
ment
Complaints have been received from the leading
PHYSICIANS and families i'll the Southern States
OF the sale of cheap limitations of the Schiedam
Aromatic Schnapps in those markets; and travel
ers, who are in the habit of using it antidote
TO the Daneful influence of unwholesome river
water, testify that cheap gin, put up in Schicdam
bottles, is frequently pamed off upon the unwarv
frnQ va hnay, foJ
to institute inquiries the subject, and to for
ward to him the names of such parties as they
system OF deception. In conclusion, the 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 pubic and himself against fraudulent imita-
tions That he has shown it to be the only liquor in
the world that can be uniformly depended upon
as unadulturated; that he has challenged investi.
gatlon, analysis, comparison, and experiment in
all Its forms and from every ordeal the prepa-
a ratiom wcR s bears his name seal and trade mark,
duty he owes to his fclow-citiZens generally to
the medical profession and tho sick, to dcnounco
ana expose the Charlatans who counterfeit these
evidences of identity, and he calls upon the press
and the 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 by the
undersigned arc all they represented to be-
UDOLPHO WOLFE
feel bound to say, that regard your Schnapps
as being, in every respect, pre-emincntly pure,
and deserving OF medical patronage. At ali evonts,
it is the Purest possible article of Holland Gin
heretofore unootainable; and, as such, may be
safely prescribed by ply scians
DAVID l.. MOTT, M. D.,
Pharmaceutical Chemist New York
26 PINE STREET, New YORK, Nov 81, 1867
Udolpho Vote. Esq, Present.
DEAR SIR: have made q chemical examination
OF sample OF your Schielam Schnapps, with
the intent Of determining if any foreign or ninrous