The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-11-17
sfhiehanl sfhnapps.
OFFICE OF UDOEPHO WOLFE. |
Sole Impo, ter ofthe Scktedam Aromatic Schnapps,
No. 90 Beaver-street. (


To the PeopIe of the Southern States.
WHEN THE PURE MEDICINAL RESTORATIVE,
now SO widely known as WOLFE'S SCH1EDAM
sC9NAPPS, 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 1t could not wholly
escape the penalty attached to all new and useful
preparations. He therefore, endeavored TO invest II
with strongest possible safeguard against counter
feiters and to rendcr all attempts to pirate 1t diff
cult and dangerous. It was submitted to dtsttn.
euished chemists for analysis, and pronounced by
them the purest spirit ever manufactured Its purt-
y 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 a
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 opluions Of
the article were unanimously favorable. Such
preparation, they said, had long been wanted by
the profession as no reliance could be placed on the
ordinary liquors of commerce, all OF which were
more or less adulterated, and therefore unit for
medical purpose The peculiar ex xellence and
strength Of the OF of juniper. which formed one OF
the principal ingredients of the schnapps. together
with an unalloyed character of the alcoholic ele-
ment, give it. in the estimation of the faculty,
marked superiority over every other difusve stmu-
liant as diureiic, 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 proprietors
autograph signature was attached to each label and
cover his name aud that of the preparation were en-
bossed 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 derosited 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 unacquainled
with the dIring character of the pirates who prey
upon the reputation ofhonorable merchants by vend-
ing deeter trash under their name that the Fro
tectons so carefully thrown around these schnapps
would have precluded the introductons and sale Of
counterfeits. They seem, however only to have
stimulated the rapacity of impostors. The trade
mark OF tn, proprietor has been stolen; the ndorsc-
ment which his Schiedam Aromatic Schnapps alone
received from the medical profession has been
claimed by mendaclous humbugs; his labels and
bottles have been inflated, his advertisements para
phrased, his circulars copied, and worse than oil,
dshonorabe retailers after dlsposng OF the genuine
contents of his bottles, have filed them up with
common gn the most deleterious OF all liquors, and
thus made his name and br md cover for poison.
The public the medical profession and the SICK
for whom the schiedaln Aromatic schnapps Is pre-
scribed as remedy are equally intereste with the
proprietor in the detection and suppression of these
netarious practices. Tho genuine article, manuac-
tured at the establishment of the undersigned in
schiedaln, Holland Is distilled from barley Of The
finest quality and favored with On essential extract
of the berry of the Italian uripe', OF uncqualled pu
rity Dy process unknown in the preparation Of
any other liquor 1t Is freed from every acrimonious
and corrosive clement.
Complaints have been received from the leading
physicians md families in the Southern States OF
the sale Of cheap limitations of tho Schiodam Aro-
matte Gchn1pps in those markets. and travellers,
who ore in the habit OF using 1t as an dndoie TO tho
baucful influence of unwholesome river water, tcs
tify that cheap gin put up in Schiedam bottles, is
trt ouently pulmcd 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 atrocious system Of decep
ryr1adxu 1rav hat
he has produced, from under the hands Of the most
distinguished men Of science in America, proofs un
answerable of the purity and medicinal excel
lence OF the Schiedam Aromatic Schnapps 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 the world that can be uni
formly depended upon a. unadulteratcd that be has
challenged investigation, analysis, comparison and
experiment in all Its forms; and from every ordeal
the preparation viii bears his pame seal and trade
mark has come of triumphant. He, therefore, feels
1t duty he owes to his tellow-ctiz. ms eerornlly to
the medical profession and the sick, to denounce
and expose the charlatsns who counterfeit these ey
denotes OF identity, and he calls upon the press and
the public to aid him in his efforts to remedy so great
an evil.
The following letters and certificates from the
leading physicians aud che nists of this city will
prove to the reader that all goods sold by the under
signei are oil that they are repre- ented to be.
UDOLpHO WOLFE.
I feel bound to say that regard your Schnaops.
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, NJ. D.,
Pharmaceutical Chemist New York.
&c rISE.sTREET, NEW YonK,
November u, 1867.
CDoLpHo WOLFE, Esq, Present:
Dear Sir-Ihave male chemical examination of
sample of your Schedam Schnapps. with the in
tent Of determining if any foreign or injurious sun
stance had been added to the simple distilled spirits
The examination has resulted IN the conclusion