The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-02-03
Office of UdOlpho Wolfe.

SOLE IMPORT. OF THE SCHIEDAM AROMATIC ScuNAPps
% BEAVER STREET, NEW YORK. Nov. 8, 'GS.
To Ute People Of tie !Soutltern States.
When the pure medicinal restorative, now so
widely known Wolfes SCHIEDAM SCHNAPPS,
was introduced into the world, under the endorse
ment OF 900 leading members Of the medical pro-
fesson, 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 counterfeit
ers and to render all attempts to pirate it difficult
and dangerous. 1t was submitted to distinguish
ed chemists for analysis, and pronounced by them
the purest spirit ever manufactured. It's purity
and properties having beon thus ascertained
samples OF the article were forwarded to 10000
physcians 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
III the Union promptly responded. Their opinions
OF the article wore unanimously favorable. Such
the profession, as no reliance could be placed on
tho ordinary liquors of commerce; all of which
were more or less adulterated, and, therefore,
lenco and strength OF the oil of juniper, which
formed one of the principal ingredients of the
Schnapps, together with an unalloyed character
or the alcoholic element, give it, in the estimation
OF the faculty, a marked superiority over every
other difusive stimuant as y dluretic, tonic and
restorative
These satisfactory credentials from professional
men OF tho highest rank were published in a
condemned form, and enclosed with each bottle
OF the Schnapps, one of the guarantees of it's
Senuincness. Other precautions against fraud
were also adopted; patent was obtained for the
article tho label was copyrighted, fac Sin,ile of
the proprietors autograph signature was attached
to each label and cover. his name and that Of tho
preparation 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 Wofe's
Schledam Aromatic Schnapps, in 1851; and the
label was deposited, as his trade mark, in the
United States District Court for the Southern Dis
trlct OF New York during that year.
~ might be supposed, by persons unacquainted
with the daring character Of the pirates who prey
upon the reputation OF honorable merchants, by
vending deleterious trash under their name that
the projections so carefully thrown around these
ochhaPps would have precluded the introductions
ana sale OF counterfeits. They seem, however,
rS InS 10 nave stimulated the rapacty OF impostcrs
the endorsement which his Schiedam Aromatic
Schnapps alone received from the medical pro-
icsslon has been claimed by mendacious hu nbugs:
ms labels an bottles have been initiated, his ad-
@ Sel @el!senents paraPhrased, his circulars copied
and, worse than all, dishonorable retailers. after
disposing OF tho genuine contents of his bottles
| nave TILED them up with common gin the most
deloterious of all liquors. and thus made his name
| and brand a cover for poison
Tho public, the medical profession and Tho s;cs
| for whom the Echiedam Aromatic Scbnapps is
prescribed remedy, are equally interested with
the proprietor in the detection and suppression of
these nefarious practices. The genuine article
manufactured at the establishment Of the under
barley OF the finest quality, and favored with an
essential extract of the berry of the Italian
| juniper Of unequalled purity By process nm
known in the preparation of any other liquor It is