The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-12-17
Sfbieoant Sfbnapps.
OFFICE OF UDOLPHO WOLFE,
Sole Impo, ter of the Sctiedam aromatic Sctnapps,
No 20 Benver.street.
Nrvu vopr November 4 1863
To the People OF the Southern States


NEW YORK, November 8. 1868.
To the People OF the Southern States:
WHEN THE PURE MEDICINAL RESTORATIVE,
now so 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 1t could not wholly
escape the penalty attached to all new and useful
preparations He, therefore, endeavored TO invest II
with strongest possible safeguard against counter
feters and to render all attempts to pirate 1t diff
cult and dangerous 1t was submitted to distin-
suished chemists for analysis, and pronounced by
them the pures spirit manufactured. Its puri-
ty and properties having been thus ascertained SAM
pies of the article were forwarded to tell thousand
physicians including all the leading practitioners IN
the United States, for purposes Oh 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
preparation, they said, had long been wanted by
the profession no reliance could be placed on the
ordinary liquors of commerce, all of which were
more or less adulserated, and therefore unfit for
strength of the OF of juniper. which formed one of
the principal ingredients of the Schnapps, together
with an unalloyed character of the alcoholic ee-
ment, give it. in the estimation of the faculty,
marked superiority over every other dusive 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 of the guarantees of Its genuine
ness. Other precautions against fraud were also
adopted patent was obtained for the article, the
label copyrighted fac simiie of the prop1ieors
autograph signature attached to each label and
cover his name aud that of the preparation were en-
bossed on the bottles and the orks 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 Wolfo'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 unacquainted
with the during character of the pirates who prey
upon the reputation honorable merchants 5y vend-
ing deleterous trash under their name th-; me pro-
tections carefully thrown around these Schnapps
would have precluded tho introductions and sale OF
counterfcts. They seem, however. only to have
stimulated the rspacty of impostors. The trade
mark of tn, proprietor has been stolen; the ndorse-
ment which his Schiedam Aromatic schnapps alone
received from the medical profession has been
claimed by mendacous humbugs; his labels and
bottles have been initiated his advertisements para
phrased, his circulars copied, and worse than all,
dshonorable retailers after disposing of the genuine
contents Of his bottles, have filed them up with
common gin, the most deleerious of all liquors, aud
thus made his name and brlnd cover for poison
The public the medical profession and the sick,
for whom the Schielam Aromatic Schnapps is pre-
scribed as remedy, are equally intercstc with the
proprietor in the detection and suppression OF these
neiarious practices. The genuine article, manuiac-
tured at the establishment Of the undersigned in
SchedaIn Holland, IS distilled from barley OF the
finest quality and favored with essential extract
OF the berry of the 1ann juuiper of uneQuaued 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 Schicdam Aro-
matte Schnapps in those markets; and travellers
who are in the habit OF using it Us an andoe to the
baneful influence of unwholcsome river water. es
tify that cheap gn put up in Schiedam bottles, is
frequently palmed Off upon the unwary. The
agents OF the undersigned havo been requested to
institute inquiries on the subject and to forward to
him the names of such parties as they may ascrr-
tain to be engaged in the arocious system Of decep
tion In conclusion. The undersigned would say that
he has produced, from under the hands Of the most
distinguished men Of science in America proofs un
answerable of the purity and medicinal excel
lence Of the Schedam Aromatic Schqapps that
he has expended many thousand dollars in sur
rounding it with guarantees and safeguards, which
he designed should project the public and himself
against fraudulent imitations that lie has shown it
to be the only liquor in the world that can be uni
formly depended upon as uuaduterated; that he has
challenged investigation analysis, comparison and
experiment in all its forms; and from every ordeal
the preparation which bears his name seal and trade
mark, has come of triumphant He therefore. feels
it duty he owes to his teowcitizans generally, to
the medical profession and the sick, to denounce
and expose the charlatans who counterfeit these evil
denotes OF identity and lie calls upon the press and
the public to aid him in his efforts to remedy great
an evil.
The following letters and certificates from the
leading physicians and chemists OF this city will
prove to the reader that oil goods sold by the under
sgnel are all that they are repre- ented to be.
UDOLPHO WOLFE.
feel bound to say, that regard your Schnapps
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