The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-11-25
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OFFICE OF, UDoLPHo WOLFE. T.
Sole Inpo' ter fthe Sehieddnl Aromatic Schnapps,
No. az Bcaver-street.
New YORK, November 3, 1868.
To the People OF the Southern Stntesi
WHENTHE PURE MEDICINAL RESTORATIVE,
now so widely known as WOLFE'S scHIEDAM
SCHNAPPS, was In reduced into the world under
the endorsement Of four thousand leading members
of the medical profession some twenty years ago, lis
proprietor was vel aware that it could not wholly
escape the penalty attached to oil new and useful
preparations. He therefore, endeaVored TO invest II
with strongest possible safee euard against counter
feiters and to render oil attempts to pirate 1t diff
cult and dangerous. It was submitted to dtstin-
guished chemists for analysis, and pronounced py
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 all 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 the most eminent medical men in
the Union promptly responded. Their opinions OF
the article were unanimously favorable. Such q
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 purposes. The peculiar excellence and
strength of the OF of juniper. which formed one Of
the principal ingredients of the schnapps together
with unalloyed character of the alcoholic elc-
ment, give it, in the estimation Of the faculty,
marked superiority over every other dusive sti nu-
liant as diure,ic, tonic and restorative.
These satisfactory credentials from professional
men Of the highest rank we're 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
adopted; patent was obtained for the article, the
label copyrighted, fac simte of the proprieors
autograph signature was attached to each label and
cover his name aud that of the preparation were en-
Lossed 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 Wofe'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.
It might be supposed by persons una:quainied
with the diring character of the pirates who prey
upon the reputation OF honorable merchants by vend-
ing deleterous trash under their name that the pro-
techons so carefully thrown around these Schnapps
would have precluded tho introductions and sae OF
counterfeits. They reem, however, only to have
stimulated the rapacity of impostors. The trade
mark of th proprietor has been stolen; the indorse-
rncut which his Schiedam Aromatic Schnapps alone
received from the medical profession has been
claimed by mendacious humbuss; his labels and
bottles have been initiated, his advertisements para
phrased, his circulars copied, and worse than all,
dshonorablo retailers after disposng of the genuine
contents of his bottles, have filed them up with
common gin, the most deleterious OF all liquors, and
thus made his name and br md a cover for poison
The public the medical profession and the sick,
for whom the schiedam Aromltic schnapps is pre-
scribcd as remedy, are equally nteres;ei with the
proprietor in the detection and suppression Of these
netarious practices. The genuine article manutac-
tured at tho establishment of the undersigned IN
Schiedam, Holland is distilled from barley OF The
finest quality, and favored with an essential extract
Of the berry of the Italian juripe OF unequaled pr-
rity By process unknown in the preparation OF
any other liquor, it is treol from every acrimonious
md corrosive clement
Complaints have been received from the leading
physicians and families in the Southern states OF
the sale of cheap imitahons of the Schiedam Arc
matte Schn1pps in those markets; and travellers
who are in the habit OF using it rs an andote to the
bancfu influence Of unwholesome river water. tes-
ify tl.at 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 the 8, ber and to forward to
him the names of such parties as they may asccr-
tain to be engaged in the atrocous system of deccp-
ton. In conclusion. the undersigned would say that
he has produced from under tho hands of the most
distinguished men Of science In America, proofs I'm
nnswcrable of the purity and medicinal excel
lence Of the Schiedam Aromatic Schnal ps that
lie has expended many thousand dollars in sur
rounding 1t with guarantees and safeguards, which
he designed should project the public and himself
against fraudulent limitations; that he has shown 1t
10 be the only liquor in tho world that can be uni
formIy depended upon unadulterated; that lie has
challenged investigation, analysis, comparison anu
experiment in all Its forms; and from every ordeal
the preparation whih bears his pame seal and trado
mark has come OF triumphant. He, therefore, feels
it duty he owes to his tellow-citizns generally, to
tho medical profession and the sick, to dcnounce
and expose Tue cuarluI1us eAS'S W.
denotes OF identity, and he calls upon tho press and
the ublic 10 aid him in his efforts to remedy so great
sn evil.
The following letters aud certificates from the
lending physicians and che mist, of this city will
prove to the reader that all goods sold by the under
sgne arc all that they are repre- entcd 10 be.
UDOLPHC WOLFE
feel bound to say, that regard your Schnapps
as being in every respect prc-eminently pure, ana
deserving OF medical patronage At all events, It IS
the purest possible article of Holland Gn hereto
fore unobtainaDle. aud as such may be safely pre-
DAVID L. MO TT NJ. D.,
Pharmaceutical Chemist, New York.
&c E1SE-srREET, New YORK;
November 81, 1SG1.
UpuLrHo WOLFE, Eeq.. Present:
Dear ,Sir-I have made 4 chemical eXlminatlon Oh
sample of your Schedam Schnapps, with tue IN
tent Of determnin. if any foreign or injurious sun
stance bad been added 10 the simple distilled spirits
The examination has resulted IN the conclusion
that the sample contained no poisonous or hIrnnul
admixture. have beou unable to discover any
trace OF the decterious substances wch are GIN,
ployed in the adulteraiion Of liquors l would not
hesitate to myself or to recommf nj 10 others,
for medicinal purposes, The Schiedam Schnapps as
nm excellent and unobjectonabe variety Of gin.
Very respectfully yours,
isinnedl CHAS. A. SEELY, Chemist.