The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-01-26
Office of Udolpho Wolfe,

SOLE IMPORT OF THE ScHIEDAM AROMATIC SCHSArrs
% BEAVER STREET, NEW YORK, Nov. 3. GS
To The People Of The Southern States.
When the pure medicinal restorative. now 80
widely known ~ Wofo's SCHIEDAM SCHNAPPS,
was introduced into the world under the endorse
ment of 900 leading members of the medical pro-
tesslon some twenty years ago. it's proprietor was
we'll aware that it could not wholly escape the
penalty attached to new and useful preparations
He, therefore, cndeavored 10 invest ii with the
strongest possible safeguard against counterfeit
crs, and to render all attempts to pirate it difficult
and dangerous. 1t was submitted to distinguish
cd chemists for analysis, and pronounced by them
the purcst spirit ever manufactured Its purity
and properties having bcen thus ascertained
samples of the article we're 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 the most eminent medical mon
In the Union promptly responded Their opinions
OF the article were unanimously favorable. Such
preparation, they said, had long been wanted by
the ordinary liquors of commerce.; all of which
were moro or less adulterated and, therefore.
nnnt 1n FOR medical purposes. The peculiar excel
renee and strength Of the oil of juniper which
formed one of the principal ingredients of the
Schnapps. together with an unalloyed character
OF thc alcoholic element give it, i'll the estimation
vi tho faculty, marked superiority every
other diifusive stimnlant dIuretic tonic and
restorative.
These satisfactory credentials from professional
men OF tho highest rank were published in
condensed form, and enclosed with each bottle
OF the Schnapps, as ono of the guarantees of its
Behuincness. Other precautions against fraud
were also adopted; patent was obtained for tho
article, tho label was copyrighted fac si,nle of
tne proPrietors autograph signature was attached
to each label and cover. his name and that of the
preparation were embossed on tho bottles. and the
corKs were sealed with private SEAL No article
had ever been sold in this country under the name
or Schnapps prior to the introduction of Wolfe's
i"it nGnieoam aromatic Schnapps, in 1851; and the
idoui n.;, vas derosied, MS his trade mark i'll tho
Chteu states District Court for tho Southern Dis
trict OF New York during that year.
IL might be supposed by persons unacouainted
with tne daring character of the pirates who prey
upon the reputation Of honorable mercbants hyy
vending deeterious trash under their name thai
the projections so carefully thrown around these
Schnapps would have precluded The introdnctions
ana sale OF counterfeits. They seem, however.
only to have stimulated the rapacity of imposters'
The trade mark of the proprietor has been stoen.
the endorsement which his Schicdam Aromatic
Schnapps alone received from tho medical pro
fesslon has been claimed by mendacious humbups.
his labels IN bottles havo been initiated L;s 3D.
Vertisements paraphrased his circulars copied
and, worse than all dishonorabie retailers. aftcr
dlspOsing OF tho genuine contents of his bottles,
have tiled them up with common gin the most
deleterious of all liquors. and thus made his name
and brand cover for poison.
The public. the medical profession and the sick
for whom the schiedam Aromatic Schnapps is
prescribed as remedy, arc equally interested with
the proprietor in the detection and suppression of
these nefarous 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
essential extract OF the berry of the Italian
Juniper, OF unequalled purity. BY process un-
aho%n In the preparation Of any other liquor it s
Ireed from every acrimonious and corrosive ele-
ment.