The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-03-02
Office of Udolpho Wolfe,
| SOLE IMPORT. OF THE SCHIEDAM AROMATIC ScHSApp
% BEAVER STREET. NEW YoRK, Nov. 3, '6S.
| 10 The People Of The Southern States

SOLE lAPoET OF THE SCHIEDAM AROMATIC ScnNApps
% BEAVER STREET, New YoRK, Nov. 3, '6S.
To the People Of the Southern States.
When the pure medicinal restorative now SO
widely known as Wolfe's SCHIEDAM SCuNAPPS,
was introduced into tho world under the endorse
ment rnt OF 1000 leading members of the medical pro-
icssloh, some twenty years ago, It's proprietor
well aware that it could not wholly escape the
penalty attached to new and useful preparations.
He, therefore, cndcavored to inyest il with tLe
strongest possible safeguard against counterfeit
ers, and to render all attempts pirate it difficult
and dangerous. Itwas submitted to distinguish
ed chemists for anal ysis, and pronounced by them
the purest spirit ever manufactured. It's purity
and properties having been thus asccrtained
samples OF tho article wore forwarded to 10, 900
physclans, including all the leading practitioners
in tho United States, for purposes of experiment
circular, requesting trial of the preparation
ana a report OF the result. accompanied each
specimen 4,O00 OF the most eminent medical men
III the Union promptly responded. Their opinions
Of tho article were unanimously favorable Such
preparation, they said, had long been wanted by
the profession, as no reliance could be placed on
tho ordinary liquors of commerco; all of which
were more or less adultcrated, and therefore
nnht ! for medical purposes. The peculiar excel
iehcc ana strength OF the oil of juniper, which
formed ono of the principal ingredients of the
Schnapps. together with an nnaoyed character
OF the alcoholic element, give it, i'll the estimation
or the faculty, marked superiority over every
other diTusive stimulant as q d,uretic tonic and
restorative.
These satisfactory credentials from professional
men OF tho highest rank wero published i'm n
condemned form, and enclosed with each bottle
VI the Schnapps, as one OF the guarantees of it's
genuinoness Other precautions against fraud
were also adopted; patent obtained for the
article, the label was copyrighted, fac sin,ue of
the proprlotor'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 in this country under the name
OF Schnapps prior to the introduction of Wolfe's
Schiedam Aromatic Schnapps, in 1851; and tho
label was deposited his trade mark in the
United States District Court for the Southern Dis
trict OF New York during that year.
IL might be supposed, by persons unacouainted
with tho daring character of tho pirates who prev
upon the reputation OF honorable merchants by
vcnding deleterious trash under their name that
the projections 80 carefully thrown around these
Schnapps would have precluded the introductions
and sale OF counterseits. They SEEM however
only to have stimulated the rapacty of imposters.
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 hun bugs:
his labels an bottles have been inflated his ad-
yertisements paraphrased, his Circulars copied
and, worse than all dishonorable retailers. after
disposing OF the genuine contents of his bottles.
have tiled them iup with common gn the most
deleterious of all liqpors and thus made bis pame
and brand a cover for poison. r ,l4 f,A
The public, the medical profession and the sick.
for whom tho Schiedam Aromatic Schnapps is