The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-02-07
Office of Udolpho Wolfe,

SOLE IMPORT. OF THE SCHIEDAM AROMATIC SCHNApps
% BEAVER STREET, New YORK, Nov. 8, '6s.
To the People Of ae Southern States
When the pure medicinal restorative. now 30
widely known as Wolfe's SCHIEDAM SCHNAPpS
was introduced into the world under the endorse
ment OF 1000 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.
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 distipguish-
ed chemists for analysis, and pronounced by them
the purest spirit ever manufactured. Its purity
and properties having been thus ascertained
samples of the article wore forwarded to 10 0Oo
physicians, including all the leading practitioners
IN , the United States, for purposes Of experiment
circular, requesting trial of the preparation
and report OF the result, accompanfed each
specimen: 1000 Of the most eminent medical men
~ II. t the union promptly responded Their opinions
preparation, they said, had long been wanted by
the profession as no reliance could be placed on
,tn .ne ordinary liquors Of commerce; all Of which
unht Tor medical purposes. The peculiar excel
!ence and strength OF the oil of juniper. which
anImed one of the principal ingredients of the
Schnapps. together with an unalloyed character
OF the alcoholic clement give it, in the estimation
OF the faculty, marked superiority over every
restorative. ~ "
These satisfactory credentials from professional
men OF tho highest rank we're published in a
condensed form, and enclosed with each bottle
Vi INC ochnapps, as one of the guarantees OF it's
6chuineness. Other precautions against fraud
muie a's0 ADOPTED; patent was obtained for the
attice, inc label was copyrighted, fac simQe Of
VI tne proprietor autograph signature was attached
10 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 nnder the name
OF Schnapps prior to the introduction of Wolfe's
Schledam Aromatic. Schnapps, in 1851; and the
iaDel was deposited, as his trade mark. i'm the
Onted states District Court for the Southern Dis
tr1Gt OF New York during that year.
;t ti lgh1 hg DC supposed, by persons unacquainted
with tho daring character Of the pirates who prev
upon tho reputation Of honorable merchants. by
vendlng deieterlous trash under their name, that
Ihe projections so carefully thrown around these
Schnapps would have precuded the introductions
ana sale or counterfeits. They seem however
only to have stimulated the rapacty of imposters
inc trace mark OF the proprietor has been stolen:
the endorsement which his Schiedam Aromatic
Schnapps alone received from the medical pro
fesson has been claimed by mendacious humbnoa.
his labels an bottles have been initiated. his ad,
vertisements paraphrased, his circulars conied
and, worse than all, shonorable retailers after
disposng OF the genuine contents of his bottes
nave filled them up with common gin the most
deleterious OF all liquors. and thus made his name
and brand o cover for poison.
The public, the medical profession and tho sick,
prescribed as remedy, equally interested with
the proprietor in the detection and suppression of
these nefarious practices. The genuine article
manufactured at the establishment of the under,
signed, In Schiedam, Holland, is distilled from a
barley OF the finest quality, and favored with an