Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1868-12-11
kCHlEDAM SCHNAPPS.
New York, Nov. J, 1868.
TO the People Of the S0uthern States.

To the People OF the Southern States.
When the pure medicinal restorative, now so
widely known VOTES Schie6am Schuapps was
introduced into the World under the Enforcement
OK four Thousand leading members OF the medical
profession some 20 years ago, its proprietor was
well aware that il could hot wholly escape the
penalty attached to all new srd useful prepare
tons. lie, therefore, endeavored to invest it with
strongest possible safeguard against counterfeit
ers, and to render all attempts to pirate it difficult
and dangerous. 1t was submitted to distinguished
cnemlets for analysis, and pronounced by them
the purest spirit ever manufactured. It's purity
and properties having been thus sscertained,
SAMPLES of the article fow arded to ten thou
sand phvsicisDs including ali tho leading practi-
tionersln the United States, for purposes Of ex-
pertinent A circular, requesting 9 trial Of the
preparation and re port of the result, accompa-
MED each specimen. Four thousand of the most
eminent medical men in the Union promptly re-
sponded. Their opinions of the article were unan-
imously favorable. Such preparation, they said,
had long been wanted by the profession. as no re-
lance could be placed on the ordinary liquors of
commerce, all of which were more or lees adulter-
ated, and therefore unfit for medical purposes
Ihe peculiar excellence and strength of the oil Of
juniper. which formed one of the principal ingre-
dlents OF the Schnapps, together with an unal-
ioyed character OF the alcoholic element, give it.
in the estimation of the faculty. marked superb
GRITTY over every other diffusiye stimulant as diu
relic, tonic and restorative.
These satisfactory credentials from professional
men of the highest rank were published in q con-
densed form, and enclosed with each bottle of the
Schnapps, as one of the guarantees OF its genu-
lneness. Other precautions against fraud were
also adopted patent was obtained for the arti-
Gle, the label copyrighted fac sinaile of the
proprletor's autograph signature was attached to
each label and cover, his name and that of the
preparation were embossed on the bottles, and
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, 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 daring character Of the pirates who prey
upon the reputation of honorable merchants by
vending deleterious trash under their name, that
the projections so carefully thrown around these
Schnapps would have precluded the introductions
and sale of counterfeits They seem, however,
only to have stimulated the rap acity of mpostors
The trade mark Of the proprietor has been stolen;
the Endorsement which his Schedam Aromatic
Schnapps alone received from the medical profess
sion has been claimed by mendacious humbugs !;
his labels and bottles have been initiated, his ad-
ve1tisements paraphrased, his circulars copied,
and worse than all, dishonorable retailers, after
disposing of the genuine contents of his bottles,
have filled them up with common gin, the most
and brand cover for poison.
The public, the medical profession and the sick,
for whom the Schiedam Aromatic Schnapps is
prescribed remedy, equally interested
with the proprietor in the detection and suppress
sion of these nefarious practices. The genuine
article, manufactured at the establishment of the
undersigned, in Schiedam, Holland, is distilled
from barley of the finest quality, and favored
with essential extract of the berry of the Itsl
ian juniper, of unequalIed purity. By process
unknown in the preparation of any other liquor,
element
Complaints have been received from the lead
ing physicians and families in the Southern States
of the sale of cheap limitations of the Schiedam
Aromatic Schnapps in those markets and travel
ers, who in the habit of using it an antdote
to the baneful influence of unwholesome river
water, testify that cheap gin. put up in schiedam
bottles, frequently palmed off upon the unwary.
The agents of the undersigned have been request
ed to institute inquiries on the subject, and to
forward to him the names of such parties as they
may ascertain to be engaged in the atrOcious sys-
tenn of deception. In conclusion, the undersigned
would say that he has produced, from under the
hands OF the most distinguished men of science in
America, proofs unsnswerable of the purity and
medicinal excellence of the Schiedam Aromatic
schnapps that he has expended many thousand
dollars in surrounding it with guarantees and
safeguards, which he designed should protect the
public and himself against fraudulent limitations;
that he has shown it to be the only liquor in the
world that be uniformly depended upon as
unadulterated; that he has challenged investiga-
its forms and from every ordeal the preparation
which bears his name seal and trade mark. has
come off triumphant. He therefore feels it duty
he owes to his fellow. citizens generally, to the
medical profession and the sick, to denounce and
expose the charlatans who counterfeit these evil
dences of identity, and he calls upon the press
and the public to aid him il his efforts to remedy
so great an evil.
The following letters and certificates from the
leading physicians and chemists of this city will
prove to the reader that all goods sold by the un-
dersigned are all they are represented to be.
UDOLPHO WOLFE.
feel bound to say that regard your schnapps
as being in every respect pre-eminently pure, and
deserving of medical patronage. At all events, it
is the purest possible article Of Holland Gin,
heretofore unobtainahle, and as such may be
DAVID T.. MOTT. MD.
Pharmaceutical Chemist, New York.
26 PINE STREET, New YORK,
Nov 81, 1867.
UDoLPHo WOLFE Esq, Present:
DEAR SIR: have made chemical examination
of q sample of your Schiedam Schnapps, with the
intent of determining if any foreign or injurious
substance had been added to the simple distilled
spirits.
The examination has resulted in the conclusion
that the sample contained no poisonous or harm
full admixture. I have been unable to discover
any trace of the deleterious substances which are
employed in the aduteratiOn of liquors. would
not hesitate to myself or to recommend to
others, for medicinal purposes, the schiedam
Schnapps an excellent and unobjectlonable
variety of GIN Very respectfully yours,
(Signed,j CHAS. A. SEELY, Chemist.
NEW YORK, SO CEDAR STREET,
November g. 1857.
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