The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-12-01
Sfbifbam Sfbnapps.
OFFICE OF UDoLPHo WOLFE,
Sole lmpo, ter Of the Schieddm aromatic Schnapps,
No. 22 Beaver-strcct.
NEW YORK, November 8, 1868.
To the People OF the Southern statest

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| No. 22 Beaver-strcct.
| New YORK, November 8, 1868.
To the People OF the Southern Statest
WHEN THE PURE MEDICINAL RESTORATIVE.
now 30 widely known as WOLFE'S sCHIEDAM
| 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 well aware that it could not wholly
escape the penalty attached to all new and useful
preparations He therefore, cndeavored to invest II
with strongest possible safeguard against counter
feters, and to render all attempts to pirate it diff
cult and dangerous. It was submitted to dtstin-
| gushed chemists for analysis, and pronounced by
them the purest spirit manufactured. Its puri-
y and properties having been thus ascerained SAM
pies of the article were forwarded to ten thousand
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, accompanied each specimen.
| Four thousand Of tho most eminent medical men In
| the Union promptly responded. Their opinions Of
| the article were unanimously favorable. Such q
! preparation, they said, had long been wanted by
The profession, no reliance could be placed on the
ordinary liquors Of commerce, oil Of which were
medical purposes. The peculiar excellence and
strength of the o of juniper. which formed one OF
the principal ingredients of the Schnapps together
with an unalloyed character of the alcoholic ele-
ment, give 1t. in the estimation of the faculty,
marked superiority over every other difusive simu-
liant as diureic, 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
Schnapps. as one Of the guarantees OF Its genuine
ness Other precautions against fraud were also
adopted; patent obtained for the article, the
label was copyrighted fac snne of the proprielors
autograph signature was attached to each label and
cover, his name aud that Of the preparation were en-
bossed on the bottles. and the corks sealed with
his private seal. No article had ever been sold in
this country under the name Of Schnapps prior to
the introduction of Wolfe's schiedam Aromatic
schnspps 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 unacquainied
with the dIring character of the pirates who prey
upon the reputation ofhonorable merchants by yend-
ing deleerous trash under their name that the PRO-
tections carefully thrown around these Schnapps
would have precluded the introductions and sale OF
counterfcits. They seem, however, only to have
stimulated the rapacity Of impostor'. The trade
mark OF th proprietor has been stolen the indorse
mont which his Schiedam Aromatic schnapps alone
received from the medical profession has been
claimed by mendacous humbuss; his labels and
bottles have been inflated. his advertisements para
phrased, his circulars copied, and worse than oil,
dshonorablc retailers after disposns of the genuine
contents of his bottles, have filed them up with
common gin, the most dele.orious of all liquors, and
thus made his name and brInd cover for poison.
The public, the medical profession and Tho sick,
FOR whom the schiedam Aromatic schnapps is pre-
scrbcd as q remedy, are equally intcrcstci with tho
proprietor in the detection and suppression OF these
neiarious practices, The genuine article, manuiac-
lurcd at tie establishment of the undersigned in
schiedarn Holland, is distilled from barley of the
finest quality and favored with an essential extract
of the berry of the Italian jurtpe, OF uncquaed pu-
rity. BY process unknown in the preparation OF
any other liquor. it is freed from every acrimonious
and corrosive clement.
Complaints have been received from the leading
physicians md families In the Southern States of
the sae of cheap limitations of the Schicdam Aro-
matte Schn1pps in those markets; and travellers,
who are in the habit Of using 1t as an andoe TO the
baneful influence of unwholesome river water. tes-
tify that cheap gin put up in schcdam bottles, is
fre ouently palmed on upon the unwary. The
agents of the undersigned have been requested to
institute inquiries tho subject, and to forward to
him the names of such parties they may asccr-
tain to be engaged in the atrocious system of deccp
tion. In conclusion the undersigned would say that
he has produced, from under the hands OF the most
dstincuis shed men Of science in America proofs lin
apswerabIe of the purity and medicinal excel
lence OF the Schiedam Aromatic Schnapps that
he has expended many thousand dollars in sur
rounding 1t with guarantees and safeguards, which
he designed should project the public and himself
against fraudulent limitations; that he has shown it
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 oil lts forms; and from every ordeal
the preparation whi bears his Dame seal and trade
mark, has come OF triumphant. He therefore, feels
it duty he owes to Ills fellow-cit'z generally to
the medical profession and the sick, to denounce
and expose the charlatans who counterfeit these ev
denotes of identity, and lie calls upon the press and
tho rublic to aid him s efforts to remedy great
IN evil.
The following letters and certificates from the
louding physicians and che nist' o. this c'ty will
prove to the reader that all goods sold by the under
signcl are all that they are repre- cnted to be.
UDoLPHO WOLFE.
Ifccl bound to say, that regard your Schnaops
as being in every respect pre-eminently pure, and