The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-12-05
Sfbieoatll Sfbnapps.
OFFICE OF UDOLPHO WOLFE,
Sole Impo'! Ter ofthe Schieddna Aromatic Schndpps,
NO 22 Reaver-street.

Sole Impo, Ter cfthe Schiedaa Aromatic Schnapps,
NO &c Reayer-street.
NEW YORK, November g. 1863
To the People of the Southern States:
WHEN THE PURE MEDICINAL RESTORATIVE,
now so widely known as WOLFE'S SCHIEDAM
Sc9NAPPS, was in reduced 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 Ho, therefore, endeavored to invest ii
with strongest possible safeguard against counter
feters, and to render all attempts to pirate 1t dill
cult and dangerous. II was submitted to distin-
guished chemists for analysis, and pronounced by
them the purest spirit ever manufactured Its puri-
ty and properties having been thu ascertained sam
pies of the article were forwarded to ten thousand
physicians including all the leading practitioners in
the United States, for purposes of experiment A
circular, requesting trial of the preparation and q
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. Tho peculiar excellence and
strength OF the OF 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,
marked superiority over every other diusive stimu-
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
schnnpps, as one of the guarantees of its genuine
ness. Other precautions against fraud were also
adopted; patent was obtained for the article, the
label was copyrighted, fac sine Of the proprieors
autograph signature was attached to each label and
cover, his name and that of the preparation were en-
bossed on the bottles and the corks were scaled with
his private SEAL No article had ever been sold in
this country under the name of Schnapps prior to
the introduction of wolfe'a schiednm Aromatio
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 unacquanted
with the d!ring character of the pirates who prey
upon the reputation ofhonorable merchants by vend-
ing deleterous trash under their name that the pro-
tections 30 carefully thrown around these Schnapps
would have precuded the introductions and sole OF
counterfeits. They seem, however, only to have
stimulated the rapacity of impostors. The trade
mark of tn, proprietor has been stolen; the indorse-
ment which his Schedam Aromatic schnapps alone
received from the medical profession has been
claimed by mendacious humbugs; lis labels and
bottles have been inflated his advertisements para
phrased, his circulars copied, and worse than all,
dshonorabe retailers after dsposing ofthe genuine
conteuts Of his bottles, have filed them up with
common gin, the most dee,erious of all liquors. and
thus made his name and brand cover for poison.
The public, the medical profession and the sick.
for whom the Schiedam Aromatic schnapps is pre-
scribed as remedy, equally interested with the
proprietor in the detection and suppression OF thesc
nefarious practices. The genuine article, manu'ac'
turcd at the establishment of the undersigned in
schiedam, Holland, is distilled from barley Of the
finest quality, and favored with m essential extract
of the berry of the italian uaipe, of uncqualled pu-
rity. BY process unknown in the preparation OF
any other liquor 1t is freed from every acrimonious
and corrosive clement.
Complaints have been received from the leading
physicians and families in the Southern States oi
the sale of cheap limitations of the Schiedan Aro-
matic schnapps in those markets; and travellers,
who are in the habit OF using it as an antdote to the
baneful influence of unwholesome river water. tes'
tify that cheap gin, put up In Schiedam bottles is
frequently polned off upon the unwary. The
agents of the undersigned have been requested to
institute inquiries the subject, and to forward to
him the names Of such parties as they may ascer
tain to be engaged In the atrocious system OF decep
tion In conclusion. the undersigned would say thn'
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 Schiedam Aromatic Schncpps thai
he has expended many thousand dollars in sur
rounding 1t with guarantees and safeguards, which
he designed should protect the public aud himself
against fraudulent limitations; that he has shown II
to be the only liquor in the world that can be uni
formly depended upon as unadulerated; that be hos
challenged investigation, analysis, comparison anc
experiment in all Its forms; and from every ordea
the preparation which bears his Damc, seal and trade
mark has come of triumphant. He therefore, feels
il duty he owes to his telowcitzens generally, tc
the medical profession and the sick, to denounce
and eoose the charlat1ns who counterfeit these evil
denotes Of identity, and he calls upon the press and
the rublc to aid him In his efforts 10 remedy so grea
an evil.
The following letters aud certificates from thu
leading physicians and che enists of this city vii
prove to the reader that all goods sold by the under
sicne arc oil that they are repre- ented to be.
UDoLPHo WOLFE.
Ifeel bound tosay, that regard your Schnapps
as being in every respect preeminently pure, and
deserving OF medical patronage. At all events 1t
the purest possible article OF Holland Gin hereto
fore unobtainable. and US such may be safely pre-
DAVID l.. MOTT, NJ. D.,
Pharmaceutical Chemist, New York.
&C pISE-srnEEr, NEW YoRK,l
| November 21 1867.
| UDoLpHo WOLFE, Esq, Present:
Dear -Ihaye made cpemica e1aminauon o.
sample of your Schedam Schnapps, with the in
tent Of determining If any foreign or injurious sun
stance bad been added to the simple distilled spirits
| The examination has resulted IN the conclusiol
| that the sample contained no poisonous OF harm1u
| admixture. have been unable to discover any
trace OF the deleterious substances wieh are EN-
| ployed in the adulteration of Dluors would no
| hesitate to use myself or to recommeEd to others
for medicinal purposes, the Schiedam schnapps o.
| nm excellent and unobjectonabe variety Of gin
| Very respectfully yourS,