The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-12-22
Sehieoar1 Sfhnapps.
OFFICE OF UDoLpHO WOLFE. |
Sole Importer of the Schiedam aromatic Schndpps,
No 20 Benver-street.
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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 it could not wholly
escape the penalty attached to all new and useful
preparations He therefore, endeayored to invest il
with strongest possible safeguard against counter
feiters, and to render all attempts to pirate it diff
cult and dangerous. 1t submitted to distin-
guished chemists for analysis, and pronounced by
them the pures spirit ever manufactured Its puri-
ty and properties having been thus ascertained, sam
pies 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 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
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 adulterated, and therefore unfit for
medical purnoses. The peculiar excellence and
strength of the ol of juniper, which formed one OF
the principal ingredients OF the schnapps together
with an unaIloyed character Of the alcoholic ele'
ment give it. in the estimation Of the faculty. q
marked superiority over every other difusiye s6mu
liant as diure.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
schnapps Us 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 sme of The proprielor's
autograph signature attached to each label and
cover his name and that of the preparation were en-
bossed the bottles, and the corks we're sealed win
bis private seal. No article hnd ever been sold IN
this country under the name OF Schnapps prior 10
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 Nes York during that
yea-.
It might be supposed by persons unacquain'ed
with the ring character of the pirates who prey
upon the reputation ofhonorable merchants by vend-
ing eeterious trash under their name, that the pro-
tectiors 80 carefully thrown around these scnnapPs
would have precluded The introduc.ious and sole OF
oounterfeits. They seem, however, only to nave
stimulated the rlpacity Of impostoss. The trade
mark of tn, proprietor has been stelea the indorse-
ment which his Schedam Aromatic schnapps alone
received from the medical profession has been
claimed by mendacious hunbugs; his labels and
bottles have been inflated, his advertisements para
phrased his circulars copied, and wcrse than all,
ishonorabe retailers after disposing ofthe genuine
consents of his bottles, have filled them up with
common ein the most dele;erious OF all liquors, and
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-
scribed as remedy. equally intereste with the
proprietor in the detection and suppression Of these
nearious practices The genuine article, manu:ac-
tured at tie establishment of the undersigned IN
schieda,n, Holland, is distilled from barley of the
finest quality, and favored with an essential extract
of the berry Of the Ialian unipe of unc lualled pr-
rity. By n process unknown in the preparation Oh
ally other liquor it is freed from every acrimonious
and corrosive element.
Complaints have been received from tie leading
physicians and families in the Southern States OF
the sale of cheap limitations Of the Schiedam Aro-
lnatic Schnapps In those markets; and travellers,
who are in the habit of using it as an andote to the
haneful influence of unwholcsomc river water, tcs-
tify that cheap gin put up in schicdaa bottles is
frequently palmed OF upon the un"ary. The
agents of the undersigned have been requested to
iu.ti.nto inurics the subject, aRl to forward to
him the names Of such parties as they may ascrr-
tain to be engaged in the nrocious system OF decep
ton. In conclusion. the undersigned would say that
he has produced, from under the haudsoi the most
distinguished men CT science in America, proofs un
answeratle of the purity and medicinal excel
lence OF the Schiedam Aromatic Sohnapps {; 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 limitations; that hc has shown it
to be the only liquor in the world that can be uni
formly depended upon as uuadulterated that he has
challenged investigation. analysis. comparison and
experiment in oil its forms; and from every ordeal
the preparation which bears his pace seal and trade
mark has come Of triumphant Ee, therefore, feels
it duty he owes to his tellow-citizens 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
tho uhc to aid him in hia efforts to remedy so great
an evil.
The following letters md certificates from the
lcadinc physicians and che mist: of this city will
prove to the reader thai all goods sold by the under
signe are oil that they orc repre- entcd to be.
UDoLpHo WOLFE.