The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-01-31
Office of Udolpho Wolfe,

SOLE IMPORT OF THE SCHIEDAM AROMATIC SruNAplS
% BEAVER STREET, New YORK, Nov. g. 'Gs
TO Me People Of lie Southern States.
When the pure medicinal restorative now SO
widely known as Wolfe's SCHIEDAM SCIINAPPS,
was introduced into the world, under hu endorse
ment of 4,OoO leading members Of the medical pro-
lcssion, some twenty years ago, it's proprietor was
well aware that it could not wholly escape the
penalty attached to new and useful preparations
lie, therefore, endeavorcd 10 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 distinguish
ed chemists for analysis, and pronounced by them
the purcst spirit ever manufactured. It's purity
and properties having been thus ascertained
samples of the article wcro forwarded to 10 900
physicians, including all the leading practitioners
IN the United States, for purposes of experiment
A circular, requesting trial of the preparation
and a report of tho result, accompanied each
specimen. 1000 of the most eminent medical men
III the Union promptly responded. Their opinions
OF the article were unanimously favorable. Such a
preparation, they said, had long been wanted by
inc me proiesslon' as no reliance could be placed on
the ordinary liquors Of cemmerce; all of which
were were more or less adulterated, and, therefore,
ience and strength OF the oil OF juniper. which
formed one of the principal ingredients of the
SchnapPs. toSether with an unalloyed character
OF the faculty, a marked superiority over every
other dihusive stimulant diuretic, tonic and
restorative
Those satisfactory credentials from nrofess;onal
men OF tho highest rank were published in
condensed form, and enclosed with each bottle
OF the Schnapps, as one Of the guarantees of it's
genuineness. Other precautions against fraud
were also adopted; patent was obtained for the
article, the label was copyrighted fac sin,ae of
the proPrietor's 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
mao ever oeen sold in this country under the name
OF Schnapps prior to the introduction OF Wolfe's
Schedam Aromatic Schnapps, in 1851; and the
label la was deposited, as his trade mark, in the
United States District Court for the Southern Dis
trlct OF New York during that year.
~ might be supposed, Dy persons unacguanted
with with the daring character of the pirates who prey
vending deoterious trash under their name. that
the projections carefully thrown around these
schnapps would have precluded the introductions
only to have stimulated the rapacty of imposters
Inc trade mark of the proprietor has been stolen:
sne sae endorsement which his Schiedam Aromatic
Schnapps alono received from the medical pro
Iesslon has been claimed by mendacious humbups:
his labels an bottles have been initiated, his ad,
Vertisoments paraphrased, his circulars copied
and, worse than all, dshonorable rctaers after
dlsposing OF the genuine contents of his bottles.
na,o haye niled them up with common gin, tho most
and brand a cover for poison.
Inc pubilc The medical profession and the sick
for whom the Schedam Aromatic Schnapps is
prescribed ns aremedy. are equally interested with
the proprietor III the detection and suppression of
these nofarious practices. The genuine article
manufactured at the establishment of the under,
signed in Schiedam, Holland, is distilled from
barley of the finest quality, and favored with an
essential extract of the berry of tho Italian
juniper, OF unequallod purity. BY process un-
kno%n in the preparation of any other liquor, it is
freed from every acrimonious and corrosive ee-
mont
Complaints have been received from the leading
physicians and families in tho Southern States
OF the sale of cheap limitations of the Schiedam
Aromatic Schnapps in those markets; and travel
ers, who are in the habit of using it as antidote
water, testify that cheap gin, put up in Schiedam
D0ttles, 1s frequently palmed off upon the unwary
me agents OF the undersigned have been requested
ward to him the names OF such parties as they
may ascertain to be engaged in the atrocious