The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-11-27
Sfhifoanl Sthnapps.
OFFICE OF UDoLPHo WOLFE. |
Sole Tpno, Ter of he Schiedan, Aromatic Schnapps,
No. 22 Beaver-street.
Nru yoRK November 8. 1853.

BeaFcT.8LfceC.
New YORK, November 8. 1858.
To rho PeopIe of the Southern States:
WHEN THE pxaaE MEDICINAL RESTORATIVE.
now so widely known as WoLFE'S SCHlEDAM
SCHNAPPS, was Introduced into the world under
the endorsement of four thousand leading members
of the medical profession some twenty years ago. Its
proprietor was we'll aware that 1t could not wholly
escape the penalty attached to all new and useful
preparations He, therefore, endeaVored 20 invest
with strongest possible safee euard against counter
feiters and to render all attempts to pirate 1t df-
cult and dangerous 1t was submitted to d'stin'
ouisbed chemists for analysis, and pronounced by
them the purest spirit ever manufactured. Its puri
ty and properties having been thus ascertalncd' sam
ples of the article were forwarded to ten thousand
physicians including oil 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.
Four thousand of the most eminent medical men IN
the Union promptly responded. Their opinions OF
the article were unanimously favorable. Such
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 were
more or less adulterated, and therefore UNFIT for
medical purposes. The peculiar excellence anu
strength of the OF of juniper. which formed one Oh
the principal ingredients of the schuapps' tosesher
with IN unalloyed character of the alcohoilc ele-
ment. riyo il. in the estimation Of the faculty,
marked superiority over every other difusre sumu-
liant as liure,ic, tonic and restorative
These satisfactory credentials from professional
men of the highest rank were published in con-
densed form, and enclosed with each bottle OF the
scbnapps as one of the guarantees OF its genuine
nees. Other precautions against fraud were also
adopted; patent was obtained for the article the
label was Copyrighted FAC smiie Of the proprieor's
autograph signature was attached to each label and
cover, his name aud that Of the preparation were e
ossed on the bottles and the corks were sealed win
his private seal. No article had ever oeen solo III
this country under the name Of Schnapps prior 10
the introduction of Wolfes Schiedam aromauc
schnapps In 1851; and the label was DEPOSITED as
his trade mark, in the United States District Court
for the Southern District of New York during that
year.
It might be supposed by persons una:quain'ed
with the dlring character of the piratea who prey
upon the reputation othonorabe merchants DJ Teno-
ing deleterous trash under their Dame that the FRO
tections so carefully thrown around these Schnapps
would have precluded the introductions and sale OF
c,unterfeits. They seem, however, only to have
stimulated the rlpacty of impostors. The trade
mark OF tn, proprietor has been stolen; tne ndorsc
ment which his schiedam Aromatic Schnapps alone
received from tho medical profession has oeen
claimed by mendacious humbugs; his labels ana
bottles hive been inflated his advertisements para
phraeed, his circulars copied, and worse than all
dishonorabe retailers, after dsposng OF the genuine
contents OF his bottles. have a'lcd them up with
common Gin the most deleerious Of all liquors. and
thus made his name and brInd cover for poison.
The public, the medical profession and the SICK
for whom the schiedam Arom1tc schnapps Is pre-
scribed as remedy are equally intcrese with tie
p-oprietor in the detection and suppression Of these
nefarious practices The genuine article, maauac-
tured at the establishment of the undersigned in
schicdam, Holland, is distilled from barley of the
finest quality, and favored with an essential extract
of the berry of The Italian juripe Of uncquaed pu
rity. By process unknown in the preparation OF
my other liquor it is freed from every acrimonious
aud corrosive element.
Complaints have been received from the lending
physicians and families in the Southern States OF
the sale of cheap limitations of the Schiedam Aro-
matte Schnlpps in those markets; and travellers,
who are in the habit OF using it as an anidote to the
baneful influence Of unwholesomc river water, tes-
tfy that cheap gin put up in Schiedam bottles, Is
frequently palmed cf uron the unwary. The
agents of the undersigned have been requested to
institute inquiries on the srbject and to forward to
him the names OF such parties as they may ascrr-
tain to be engaged the atrocious system of decep-
D1oro i0Do od n y
be has produced from under the hands of the most
distinguished men Of science in America. proofs un
auswerable of the purity and medicinal excel
lencc of the Schiedam Aromatic Schnarps that
he has expended many thousand dollars in sur
rounding 1t with guarantees and safeguards, which
he designed should protect the public and himself
against fraudulent limitations; that lie hns shown 1t
10 be the only liquor in the world that can be uni
formly depended upon unadulterated; that lie has
challenged investigation, analysis, comparison and
experiment in all its forms; and from every ordeal
the preparation whi bears his name seal and trade
mark, has come Of triumphant. He, therefore, feels
It duty he owes to his teow-citiz"ns generally, to
the medical profession and the sick, to denounce
and expose the cha-latans who counterfeit these evil
denotes OF identity and he calls upon the press and
the ubc to aid him in his efforts to remedy 30 great
an evil.
The following letters aud certificates from the
leading physicians and che nist3 of this city will
prove to the reader that all goods sold 10y the under
sgne are oil that they are repre- ented to be.
UDOLPHO WOLFE
I feel bound to say, that regard your ScLnapps
as being in every respect pre.eminently pure. and
deserving OF medical patronage. At oil events 1t is
the purcst possible article of Holland Gin hereto
fore unobtainab!e. and IS such may be safely pre-
scribed by physicians.
DAVID L. MOTT, N. D.,
Pharmaceutical Chemist, New York.
2G FISE-sTTEET, NEW IoEK,
November 2l 1857
UDoLpEo WOLFE, Esq, Present:
Dear Sir-I have ma ]ea chemical examination Of
n sample of your Schicdam Schnapps, with the n-