The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-12-09
Sfhiebanl Sfbnapps.
OFFICE OF UDOLPHo WOLFE.
Sole In,po, ter Of Lhe Schiednm aromatic Schndpps,
No. 22 Bcavcr-street.
Npw yopE November g. 1868

WHEN THE PURE MEDICINAL RESIORhIlfE,
now so widely known as WOLFE'S SCHIEDAM
SCaNAPPs, was in reduced into the world under
tile endorsement of four thousand leading members
of the medical profession some twenty years ago, its
proprietor was we'll aware that it could not wholly
escape the penalty attached to all new and useful
preparations Hc therefore, endeavored 10 invest 1t
with strongest possible safeguard against counter
feiters and to render all attempts to pirate 1t dih-
cult and dangerous. It was submitted to dstin-
ouished chemists for analysis, and pronounced by
them the purest spirit manufactured. Its puri-
ty and properties having been thus ascertained, sam
pies of tho article were forwarded to ten thousand
physcians 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 the most eminent medical men in
the Union promptly responded. Their opinions OF
the article were unanimously favorable. Such a
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
moro or less adulterated, and therefore unit for
| 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 it, in the estimation of the faculty. q
marked superiority over every other dfusive stimu-
liant as diuretic, 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 Agenuine-
ness Other precautions against fraud were also
ot~ko for tha orfiC n
label copyrighted, fac stmite Of the propr1eors
autograph signature attached to each label and
cover his and that of the preparation were en-
bossed on the bottles aud the corks were 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
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.
1t might be supposed by persons unacquninted
with the during character Of the pirates who prey
upon the reputation ofhonorablo merchants by vend
ing deeterious trash under their name that the pro-
tections 80 carefully thrown around these schnapps
would have precludcl the introductons and sale oi
counterfeits. They seem, however. only to have
stimulated the rapacity of impostors. The trade
mark of ths proprietor has been stolen the indorse-
ment which his schicdam Aromatic schnapps alone
received from the medical profession has been
claimed by mensacious humbugs; his labels and
bottles have been inflated. his advertisements para
phrased, his circulars copied, and worse than all,
dishenorable retailers after disposng of the genuine
contents of his bottles, have filed them up with
common gin, the most deleterious of all liquors, aud
thus made his name and br,nd cover for poison.
The public, the medical profession and the sick,
for whom the Schiedam aromatic Schnapps Is pre-
scrbed as remedy are equally interested with the
proprietor in the detection and suppression of hee
nefarious practices. The genuine article manuiac-
t,lred at the establishment of the undersigned in
Scheda1n Holland, is distilled from barley Of the
finest quality and favored with essential extract
Of the berry of the italian juuiper of uncquaed pu-
rity BY process unknown in the preparation Of
any other liquor it is freed from every acrimonious
and corrosive element.
Complaints have been received from the leading
physicians and families In the Southern States OF
the sale Of cheap limitations of the Schiedam Aro-
matte Schnapps in those markets; and travellers,
who arc in the habit Of using it as an Andote to the
bancru, influence Of unwhoesone river water. tes-
tify that cheap gin, put up IN Schiedam bottles Is
frequently pelmed of 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 as they may ascrr-
tain to be engaged in the atrocous system OF decep-
tiou. In conclusion the undersigned would say that
he has produced from under the hands Of the most
distinguished mon of science in America, proofs un
answerabe 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; TINT he has shown II
to be the only liquor in the world that can be uni
formIy depended upon as unadulerated; that he has
challenged investigation, analysis. comparison and
experiment in all its forms; and from every ordeal
the preparation wAi> bears his Bame, seal and trade
mark has come Of triumphant. He, therefore, feels
it duty he owes to lis tellowcitizens generally to
the medical profession and the sick, to denoance
and expose the charlntsns who counterfeit these ev
denotes of identity and he calls upon the press and
the ublc to aid him in his efforts to romedy 30 grca
| an evil.
The following letters and certificates from the
leading physicians and che pists OF this city will
prove to the roader that all goods sold by the under
sicnc are all that they are repre- entcd to be-
UDoLPHO WOLFE