The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-01-30
Office of Udolpho Wolfe.

H"iE IMPORT or THE SCH1EDAM AROMATIC ScMNAprs
- BEAVER STREET, NEW YORK, Nov 3. 'G3
To tie People Of The .Sou'herm Sates
Wheh the pure medicinal restorative now so
widely known as Wol!os SCHIEDAM SCNNAPpS,
WAS introduced INTO the world, under the endorse
ment OF i 900 leading members of the medical pro-
fesslon, some twenty Years ago its proprietor was
well aware that it could not wholly cscapc fine
penalty attached to new and useful prcyarations.
He, therefore, cndcavored to invest it with the
strongest possible safeguard against counterfeit
crs, and to render all attempts to pirate it difficult
and dangerous 1t was submitted to dstinpuish-
cd chemists for analysis, and pronounced by them
INC purcst spirit ever manufactured Its purity
and properties having been thus ascertained,
samples OF the article were forwarded to 10 900
physicians, including all the leading practitioners
IN the United States, for purposes OF experiment.
circular, requesting trial of the preparation
ana report OF the result accompanied each
specimen 1000 of tho most eminent medical men
III tue Union promptly responded Their opinions
OF the article were unanimously favorable Such
preparation, they said, had long been wanted by
the M profession, as no reliance could be placed on
the ordinary liquors of commerce.; all of which
were moro or less adulteratcd and, therefore,
unft for medical purposes. The peculiar excel.
ience and strength OF the oil OF juniper, which
foTned one OF tho principal ingredients of the
Schnapps. together with unalloyed character
OF the alcoholic element, give it, in the estimation
oi t tne faculty, a marked superiority every
ether diffusive stmuant az diurctic tonic and
restorative. ~
These satisfactory credentials from professional
men or the highest rank published in
condemned form, and enclosed with each bottle
Oh the Schnapps, as one OF the guarantees of it's
commences. Other precautions against fraud
were also adopted; patent obtained for the
article, tho label copyrighted, fac si,nie of
inc proPrietors autograph signature was attached
TO each label and cover. his name and that Of the
preparation were embossed on the bottles and the
wit ,rix too
nag ever been sold in this country under tho name
OF Schnapps prior to the Introduction of Wolfos
fShi HGniedam Aromatic Schnapps, in 1851; and tho
label Ia was deposited, as his trade mark, in the
United States District Court for the Southern Dis
trlct OF New York during that year.
With gh1 .hg De supposed oy persons unacquainted
upon the reputation of honorable merchants. by
vending deeterous trash under their name, that
sne projections so carefully thrown around these
ana sale OF counterfeits. They seem, however,
only to have stimulated the rapacity of imposters
Inc trade mark OF the proprietor has been stolen:
Tue endorsement which his Schiedam Aromatic
Schnapps alone received from the medical pro-
iession has been claimed by mendacious humbtps:
NIB labels an bottles have been initiated, his ad-
vertisements paraphrasod, his circulars copied,
ano' worse than all, dishonorable retailers after
atisposng OF the genuine contents of his bottles,
hare i1a1 hiled them up with common gin, the most
oeieterlous Of all liquors. and thus made his name
anu brand q cover for poison.
Inc public, the medical profession and the sick
ioi "noH the schiedam Aromatic Schnapps is
prescribed as arcmedy, arc equally Interested with
the proprietor In the detection and suppression of
these nefarious practices. The genuine article.
manufactured at the establishment of the under,
shlgaea ~ IN sc, ,Schedam Holland is distilled from
barley OF tho finest quality, and favored with an
essential extract of the berry Of the Italian
Jumper, OF uncqualled purity. BY process un-
known IN tho preparation of any other liquor it is
lreed from every acrimonious and corrosive eie-
ment. Wv
Complaints have been received from the leading
in tha Sn,tfl,
of the sale of cheap limitations of the Scbiedam
Aromatic Schnapps in those markets; and travel
ers who are in the habit of using it as an antidote
TO the baneful influence of unwholesome river