The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-12-19
Sfbieoant Sfbnapps.
OFFICE OF UDoLpHo WOLFE, |
Sole [mpo, ter of the Schieddn aromatic Schndpps,
No. 22 Beaver-strcet.
NEsu her 2 1853

OFFICE OF UDoLPHO WOLFE.
Sole Impo, ter of tie Sc,ieddn aromatic Schnapps,
No. 22 Beaver-strcet.
NEW YORK, November 3. 1868.
To the People of the Southern States:
WHEN THE PURE MEDICINAL RESTORATIVE,
now so widely known as wOLFE'S SCHIEDAM
sCHNAPP$. was in reduced 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 it could not wholly
escape the penalty attached to all new and useful
preparations He therefore, endeavored to invest it
with strongest possible safeguard against counter
feiters and to render all attempts 10 pirate it diff
cult and dangerous. It was submitted to distin-
guished chemists for analysis, and pronounced by
them the purest spirit ever manufactured Its pur1-
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 opinions OF
the article were unanimously favorable. Such a
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 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 an upalloyed character of the alcoholic ele-
ment, give it.,in the estimation Of the faculty,
marked superiority every other difusive stimu-
liant as a diuretic, 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 obtained for the article. the
label was copyrighted fac smie of the proprielor's
autograph signature attached to each label and
cover his name and 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 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 unacqunin'ed
with the during character of the pirates who prey
upon the reputation othonorable merchants by vend
ing deeterous trash under their name, that the pro-
tections 80 carefully thrown around these schnapps
would have precludcd the introducions and sale OF
counterleis. They seem, however only to have
stimulated the rapacity Of impostors. The trade
mark of tn, proprietor has been stolen the ndorse-
ment which his Schicdam Aromatic Schnapps alone
received from the medical profession has been
claimed by mendacous humbugs; his labels and
bottles have been initiated, his advertisements para
phrascd, his circulars copied, and worse than oil,
dishonorablo retailers after disposng OF the genuine
contents of his bottles, have filed them up with
common gin, the most deleterious of all liquors, aud
thus made his name and brInd n cover for poison.
The public, tho medical profession and the sick,
for whom the scliedam Aromltic Schnapps is pre-
scribcd as remedy are equally interestc with the
proprietor in the detection and suppression of these
ncfarious practices. The genuine article, manuiac-
tured ut the establishment of the undersigned in
schieda1n, Holland, is distilled from barley of the
finest quality, and favored with an essential extract
of the berry of The Italian juriper, OF uneQuacd pu
rity. By process unknown in the preparation OF
any other liquor it is freed from every acrimonious
aud corrosive clement.
Complaints have been received from the leading
physicians and families in the Southern States of
the sale Of cheap limitations of the Schicdam Aro-
matte Schnlpps in those markets; and travellers,
WHO are in the habit OF using it as an dntidoc to the
baneful influence Of unwholcsome river water. tcs-
ify 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 the subject, AMI to forward to
him the names of such parties they may asccr-
tain to be engaged in the atroious 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
apswerable 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 project the public and himself
against fraudulent limitations; that he has shown 1t
to be the only liquor in the world that can be UNI
formly depended upon rs unadulterated that he has
challenged investigation, analysis, comparison and
experiment in all its forms; and from every orde1l
the preparation whit bears his pame seal and trade
mark, has como of triumphant He, therefore, feels
it duty he owes to his tcllow-citiz"rs generally, to
the medical profession and the sick to dcnounce
ana expose tuSSc WI
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 aud certificates from the
leading physicians and che mist, of this city will
prove to the reader that all goods sold BY the under
signel are all that they are repre- ented 10 be.
UDoLPHo WOLFE.
feel bound to say, that / regard your Selma ops
us being in every respect prc.eminently pure, and
deserving OF medical patronage At all events it is
the purest possible article of Holland Giu hereto
tore understandable. and such may be safely pre-
scribcd by physicians.
DAVID L. MOTT, NJ. D.,
Pharmaceutical Chemist, New York.
&c EINE-sTEcEr, NEW YORK,
November II, 1SGI.
UDoLruo WOLFE, Esq, Present:
Dear Str-l have male chemical examination OF
q sample of your Schiedam Schnapps, with The i'll
tent uf determining if any foreign or injurious sub
stance had been added to the simple distilled spirits.
The examination las resulted III the conclusion
that the sample contained no poisonoJs or harmful
aduxture. 1 have tctn unable to discover any
trace oil the dcleterious substances wic. are en-
ployed in the adulteratiol Of liquors. l would not
hesitate to use myself or 10 recommtLd to others,
tor medicinal purposes the Schledam Schnapps IS
an excellent aud unobjectonablc variety oi gin.