The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-01-23
Office of Udolpho Wolfe.

SOLE IMPORT. OF THE SCnIEDAM AROMATIC SCHSApps
% BEAVER STREET, NEW YORK, Nov 3. IS.
4" lie People Of The Southern States
When the pure medicinal restorative row 40
widely known as Wolfc's SCHlEDAM SCHNAppS
was introduced into the world, under the endorse
mcnt OF 1000 leading members of the medical pro-
fesslon, some twenty wears ago its proprietor WAS
well aware that it could not wholly escape the
penalty attached to new and useful preparations
He therefore, endcavorcd to invest il with the
strongest possible safeguard against counterfeit
ers, and to render all attempts to pirate il difficult
and dangerous. 1t was submitted to distinguish
ed chemists for analysis, and pronounced by them
the pnrest spirit ever manufactured. Its purity
and properties having been thus ascertuincd
samples OF the article were forwarded to 10 600
PHYSICIANS, including all the leading practitioners
In the United States, for purposes of experiment
circular, requesting trial of the preparation
and report of tho result accompanied each
specimen. 1000 of the most eminent medical men
IN the Union promptly responded. Their opinions
Of tho article were unanimously favorable Such q
preparation, they said, had long been wanted by
the profession, as no reliance could be placed on
the ordinary liquors OF commerce; all of which
we're more or less adulterated, and, therefore,
unfit for medical purposes The peculiar excel
formed one OF the principal ingredients of the
Schnapps. together with unalloyed character
OF the alcoholic clement give it, i'll the estimation
or the faculty, marked superiority over every
other dlfuslve stlmulant as dluretic, tonic and
restorative.
These satisfactory credentials from professional
men OF tho highest rank published in q
cordonsed form, and enclosed with each bottle
OF the Schnapps, as one Of the guarantees of it's
gcnuineness. Other precautions against fraud
were also adopted; patent was obtained for tho
article the label was copyrighted, fac simle of
the pYoprietors 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 soldi in this country under tho name
OF Schnapps prior to tho introduction of Wolfes
Schledam Aromatic Schnapps, in 1851; and tho
label was deposited as ais trade mark, in the
United States District Court for the Southern Dis
tfict OF New York during that year.
1t might be supposed, by persons unacquainted
with the daring character of tho pirates who prey
upon the reputation OF honorable merchants, by
vending deletcrious trash under their name, that
the projections SO carefully thrown around these
Schnapps would have precudcd the introductons
ana sale or counterfcits: They seem, however,
only to have stimua ed the rapacty OF impostcrs.
The trade mark of the proprietor has been stolen:
tho endorsement which his Schiedam Aromatic
Schnapps alone received from the medical pro-
iesson has been claimed by mendacious humbugs;
his labels an bottles have been initiated, his ad-
vertisements paraphrascd, his circulars copied,
and worse than all, dishonorable retailers, after
disposing OF the genuine contents of his bottles,
have hiled them up with common gin, the most
doleterious Of all liquors and thus made his name
and brand cover for poison.
The public, the medical profession and the sick,
for whom the Schedam Aromatic Schnapps is
prescribed as remedy, arc equally interested with
Ill inc ucteclloH anu suppression OF
these nefarious practices: The genuine article,
manufactured Mt the establishment of the under
signed, in Schiedam, Holland, is distilled from a
barioy of the finest quality, and favored with an
essential extract Of the berry of the Italian
Juniper, OF unequalled purity. By a process un-
known in the preparation Of any other liquor, it is
freed from every acrimonious and corrosive elc-
ment.
Complaints have been received from the leading
physicians and families in the South ern States,
OF the sale of cheap imtstions Of the Schedam
Aromatic Schnapps in those markets; and travel
ers, who in the habit of using it antidote
to the baneful influence OF uDwhOlesome river
water. testify that cheap gin, pnt up in schodam
bottles, is frequently pa'mcd of upon tho unwary;
The.agents OF tho undersigned have been equested
tn institute inquiries on tho subject. and 70 for