The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-01-13
Office of Udolpho Wolfe.

SOLE IMPORT. OF THE SCHIEDAM AROMATIC ScHS.Pps
% BEAVER STREET, New YORK Nov. 3. SO.
To The People Of the Southern States
When the pure medicinal restorative now so
widely known as Wolfe's SCHIEDAM SCHNApPs,
was introduced into the world under the endorse
mcnt OF 600 leading members OF the medical pro-
fession, 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, endcnvored to invest it with the
strongest possible safeguard against counterfeit
ers, and to render all attempts to pirate it difficult
and dangerous. II WAS submitted to distinguish
ca chemists for anay ysis, and pronounced by them
the purest spirit ever manufactured It's purity
ana properties having been thus ascertained,
samples OF the article wIe forwarded to 10 900
physcians, including all tie leading practitioners
IN n the United States, for purposes of experiment
a circular, requesting trial of the preparation
and a report of the result. ACCOMPANIED each
specimen 1000 of tho most eminent medical men
IN the Union promptly responded. Their opinions
preparation, they said had long been wanted by
the profession, a. no reliance could be placed on
the ordinary liquors OF commerce; all of which
were more or less adulteratcd, and, therefore
unit for medical purposes. The peculiar excel.
ience and strength of the oil of juniper, which
formed one of tho principal ingredients OF the
Schnapps' together with an unaloyed character
OF the alcoholic clement give it, III the estimation
OF tho faculty, marked superiority over every
other diffusve stimulant as dluretic, tonic and
restorative.
These satisfactory credentials from professional
men OF the highest rank published in a
condensed FORM and enclosed with each bottle
of the Schnapps, as one OF the guarantees Of its
genulneness. Other precautions against fraud
were also adopted; patcnt was obtained for the
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 the
corks were sealed with his private seal No article
had ever been sold in this country under the name
Of Schnapps prior to the Introduction of Wolfe's
sohledam Aromatic, Schnapps, in 1851; and the
q q vna InDnp I'D l.
United States District Court for the Southern Dis
trict OF New York during that year.
IL might DO supposed, by persons unacquairited
upon the reputation Of honorable merchants by
vending deloterious trash under their name that
the projections 30 carefully thrown around these
and sale OF counterfeits. They seem, however,
only to have stimulated the rapacity Of impostcrs.
The trade mark of the proprietor has been stolen:
the endorsement which his Schedam Aromatic
Schnapps alone received from the medical pro-
iesslon has been claimed by mendacious humbugs;
his labels an bottles have been initiated his adj
vertisements paraphrasod, his circulars copied
and, worse than all, d;shonorabe retailers after
disposlng OF the genuine contents of his bottles.
nave hlled them up with common gin, the most
deleterious of all liquors. and thus made his namo
and brand a cover for poison.
The public. the medical profession and the sick
FOR whom tho Echiedam Aromatic Schnapps ia
prescribed as remedy, equally interested with
tho proprietor in the detection and suppression of
these neiari9ns practices The genuine article,
signed, in schiedam. Holland, is distilled from
barley OF tho finest quality, and favored with an
essential extract OF the berry Of the Italian
juniper, OF nnequalled purity. By a process un
known in the preparation of any other liquor, it is
freed from every acrimonious and corrosive ole
ment
Complaints have been received from the leading
physicians and families in the Southern States,
of the sale OF cheap limitations of the schiedam
Aromatic Schnapps in those markets; and travel
who are in the habit Of using it as an antidote
to the baneful influence Of unwholesome river
water, testify that cheap gin, put up in schiedam
bottles, is frequently pamed off upon the unwary
Theagents OF the undersigned have been requested
to institute inquiries on the subject and to for
may ascertain 10 be engaged in the strooious
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 dollarsin in surrounding it with guarantees
and safeguards, which lie designed should protect