The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-12-04

OtFlCE'OE UUOLtHO MObtE,
Sole Imp1' ter af the Sciieddm aromatic SchndppS,
No 22 Beaver.street.
New YORK! November 8. 1868.
| To the People of the Southern States:
WHEN TIE PURE MEDICINAL RESTORATIVE,
now SO widely known as WoLFE'S sCHIEDAM
| sCYNAPPS, was in reduced into the world under
tue endorsement of four thousand leading members
of the medical profession 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, endeavored 10 invest IL
with strongest possible safeguard against counter
feiters, and to render all attempts to pirate 1t diff
cult and dangerous. It was submitted to dtstin-
gu,shed chemists for analysis, and pronounced by
them the purest spirit ever manufactured It's purl-
y and properties having been thus ascertained, sam
pies Of the article werc 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
preparation, they said, had .Yng been wanted by
the profession, as reliance could be placed on the
ordinary liquors of commerce, all OF which were
more or less adulterated, and therefore unit 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 an unalloycd character of the alcoholic ele-
ment, give it, in the estimation of tho faculty,
marked superiority over every other diffusve stimu-
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
adopted; patent was obtained for the article the
label was copyrighted fac site of the proprielor's
autograph signature was attached to each label and
cover his name and that of the preparation were en-
tossed 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 wolfes 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 unacquainied
with the diring character of the pirates who prey
upon the reputation othonorable merchants by vend-
ing deleerous trash under their name, that the Fro
tections carefully thrown around these Schnapps
would huve prccluded the inroductions and sole OF
counterfeits. They seem, however, only to have
stimulated the rapacity of impostors. The trade
mark OF thu proprietor has been stoen the indorse-
ment which his Schiedam Aromatic Schnapps alone
received FROM the medical profession has been
claimed by mendacious humbugs; his labels and
bottles have been inflated. his advertisements para
phrased, his circulars copied, and worse than all,
dshonorable retailers after disposng of the genuine
contents of his bottles, have filed them up with
common gin, the most dele,erious of all liquors, and
thus made his name and brInd cover for poison.
The public, the medical profession and the sick,
for whom the schiedam Aromatic schnapps is pre-
scribed as q remedy, are equally interested with the
proprietor in the detection and suppression of these
nefarious practices. The genuine article, manutac-
tured at the establishment of the undersigned in
Schiedam, Holland is distilled from barley of the
finest quality, and favored with on essential extract
of the berry of the italian juripe of unequaled pu-
rity. By process unknown in the preparation OF
any other liquor 1t 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 tho Schiedam Aro-
matte Schnapps in those markets; and travellers,
who ore in the habit OF using ii antidote to the
baneful influence Of unwholesome river water. tes-
tify that cheap gin, put up in Schedam bottles, is
frequently palmed of 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 arocious system of decep
ton In conclusion the undersigned would say that
he has produced, from under the hands of the most
distinguished men OF science in America proofs un
aDswerable Of the purity and medicinal excel
lence of the Schiedam Aromatic Schnapps /; 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 limitations; that hc has shown 1t
10 be the only liquor in the world that can be unt-
formly depended upon as unaduterated; that he has
challenged investigation, analysis, comparison and
experiment in oil Its forms; and from every ordeal
the preparation which bears his name, seal and trade
mark has come of triumphant. He therefore. feels
it duty he owes to his telow-citizens generally TO
the medical profession and the sick, to denounce
aud expose the charlatans who counterfeit these evil
denotes OF identity and he calls upon the press and
the public to aid him In his efforts to remedy great
an evil.
The following letters aud certificates from the
leading physicians and che nist' of this city will
prove to the reader that all goods sold by the under
sgncl are sl that they are repre- ented 10 be.
UDOLPHo WOLFE
I feel bount, 10 say, that regard your Schnaops
as being in every respect preeminently pure, and
deserving OF medical patronage. At all events 1t is
the purest possible article of Holland Gin hereto
forc uuobtainable. and such may be safely pre-
scribed by physicians.
DAVID L. MOTT, NJ. D.,
Pharmaceutical Chemist, New York.
&c FISE-sTREEI, NEW YORK,
November 21, 1867.
UDoLpHo WOLFE, Esq, Present:
Dear SRI have male chemical examination OF
sample Of your Schedam Schnapps, with the i'll
tent Of determining if any foreign orinjurous sub
stance had been added TO The simple distilled spirits
The examination has resulted in the conclusion
that the sample contained no poisonous or harmful
admxture. I have tcen unable to discover any
trace Of tho deletcrious substances wich are en-
ployed In the aJulteration Of liquors. would not
hesitate to myself CT to recomme nd to others,
for medicinal purposes, the Schedam Schnapps as
or axoaol ant md unobj blp variety of pin.