The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-11-30
Sfbisbam Sfbnapps.
OFFICE OF UDoLPHo WOLFE. !
Sole Impo, ter Of the Scsieadm Aromatic Schnapps,
No 20 Beavcr.strect.
N,z- u~a- Ioyor,hnr 1919

Sole Impo, ter of The Schiedam Aromatic Sehnapps,
No 22 Benvcr.street.
NEW YORK, November 8. 1858. J
To the People OF the Southern Stntes'
WHEN THE PURE MEDICINAL RESTORATIVE,
now so widely known WoLFE'S SCHIEDAM
SCHNAPPS, was in reduced into the world under
the endorsement of-four thousand leading members
of the medical profession twenty years ago. lie
proprietor was well aware that 1t could not whohy
escape the penalty attached to all new ana use'ui
preparations. He, therefore, endearored 20 invest
with strongest possible safeguard against counter
ieters and to render all attempts TO pirate 1t dif'
cult and dangerous. It was submitted to d'stin-
guished chemists for analysis, and pronounced oy
them the puresl spirit ever manufactured It's purl-
y and properties having been thus ascertained SAM
ples of the article were forwarded to ten thousand
physicians, including all the leading practitioners IN
tue United States, for purposes of experiment.
circular, requesting trial of the preparation ana
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. Sucn
preparation, they said, had long been wanted oy
the profession reliance could be placed on inc
ordinary liquors of commerce, all OF which were
more or less adulterated, and therefore unfit for
medical purposes. The peculiar excellence and
strength of the OF of juniper. which formed one OF
the principal ingredients of the schnapps. tosesher
with an unalloyed character OF the alcohohc eie-
ment, give it. in the estimation OF the faculty.
marked superiority over every other difusiVe snmu
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, as one of the guarantees of Its genuine
ness. Other precautions against fraud were also
adoped: patent was obtained for the article, the
label was copyrighted, oc slne OF the proprietor
autograph signature was attached to each LABEL ana
cover his name aud that of the preparation were en-
Tossed on the bottles and the corks were seaiou Win
his private SEAL No article had ever been sold In
this country under the name Of Schnapps prior to
the introduction of Wofe's schiedam Aromatic
scbnapps 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 unacqualned
with the during character of the pirates who prey
upou the reputation ofhonorabe merchants by veho'
ing deleterous trash under their name that the Pro-
tections 80 carefully thrown around these schnapps
would have prcc.uded the ntroduction3 and sale OF
counterfets. They seem, however, only to have
stimulated the rapacity of impostors The trade
mark of til, proprietor has been stoen the indorse-
| ment which his Schiedam Aromatic schnapps aione
received from the medical profession has been
| claimed by mendacous humbuSs; his labels and
bottles have been initiated, his advertisements para
phrascd, his circulars copied, and worse than oil,
dshouorable retailers after disposng Of the genuine
contcuts of his bottles, have filed them up with
common Gin, the most deleterious of a liquors, and
| thus made his name and brInd cover for poison.
The public the medical profession and the sick,
for whom the Schicdnm Aromatic schnapps is pre-
scribed as remedy, aro equally interested with the
proprietor in the detection and suppression of those
nclarious practices. The genuine article manulac-
tured ut the establishment of the undersigned in
schiedan, Holland is distilled from barley of the
finest quality and favored With an essential extract
of the berry of the Italian juripe, OF uncquacd 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 Schnlpps In those markets; and travellers,
WHO are the habit of using it as IN antidoto to the
baneful influence CT unwhocsomc river water, tes-
tfy that cheap gin, put up In Schiedam bottles is
frequently palmed off upon the unwary. The
agents of the undersigned have 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 atrocious system Of decep-
tou. III conclusion the undersigned would say TINT
he has produced from under tho hands of the most
distinguished men Of science in America. proofs un
apswerable of the purity and medicinal excel
Ience of the Schiedam Aromatic Schnarps; that
he has expended many thousand dollars in sur
rounding it with guarantees and safeguards, Which
he designed should protect the public and himself
against fraudulent imitations that lie has shown 1t
to bo the only liquor in the world that Gun be uni
formly depended upon as unadulterated that he has
challenged investigation. analysis, comparison and
experiment in all Its forms; and from every ordeal
the preparation whie bears his pae, seal and trade
mark, has come of triumphant. He, therefore, feels
il duty he owes to his tellowctz"ns generally, to
the medical profession and tho sick, to denounce
and expose the charatlns who counterfeit these evil
denotes of identity and he calls upon the press and
the ubc TO aid him in his efforts to remedy SO great
an evil.
The following letters aud certificates from the
leading physicians and che nists of this city will
prove to the reader that all goods sold by the under
signe ure all that they are repre- entcd 10 be.
UDOLpuO WOLFE
Ifeel bound to say, that regard your Schna3ps
as being in every respect pre-eminently pure, and
deserving of medical patronage. At all events 1t is
the purest possible article of Holland Gin, hereto
fore uuobtainable. and as such may be safely pre-
scribed by physicians.
DAVID L. MOTT, n. D.,
Pharmaceutical Chemist New York.
&c F1NE-srREET New YoRK,
November 81. 1867.
UpoLpHo WOLFE, Esq, Present:
Dear Sir-I have made chemical examination Of
sample Of your Schiedam Schnapps, with the in-
tent Of determining if any foreign or injurious sub
stance had been added to th- simple distilled spirits.
The examination has resulted III the conclusion
that the sample contained no poisonous or harmful
| admixture. have been unable to discover any
trace of the deleterious Substances wich are en-
ployed in the adulteration Of liquors would not
hesitate to use myself to recomme nd to others,
for medicinal purposes tue Schiedam Schnapps as
| an excellent and unobjectionable variety OF gin