The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-11-13
Sfbieoanl Sfbnapps.
OFFICE OF UDOLPH0 WOLFE, /
'oie Inipo' ter of the Schiedam Arondtic Schndpps
No az Benverrstfect.
NFw Y0pv. November q 1888 |

| OFFICE OF UDOLPH0 WOLFE,
Sole Inipo, ter of the Schieddm dramatic Schndpps,
No "a Benverrstrect.
NEW YORK; November 8. 1858.
TO the People OF tho Southern States;
WHEN THE PURE MEDICINAL RESTORATIVE,
| now widely known Us wOLFE'S SCHIEDAM
| SC9NAPPS, 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 that it 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 render all attempts to pirate it diff
cult and dangerous. It was submitted to disn-
guished chemists for analysis, and pronounced by
them The purest spirit ever manufactured Its puri-
ty and properties having been thus ascertained,
Piles Of the article wer. forwarded to ten thousand
physicians including oil the leading practitioners In
tue 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 long been wanted by
the profession Of reliance could be placed the
ordinary liquors of commerce, all Of which were
moro or less adulterated, and therefore unfit for
medical purpose The peculiar ex elence and
strength Of the oi of juniper. which formed one of
the principal ingredients of the Schnapps, together
with an unalloyed character of the alcoholic ele-
ment, give 1t, in the estimation Of the faculty,
marked superiority over every other dffusive stinu
liant as diurelic, 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 was copyrighted, fac sintc of the propreors
autograph signature was attached to each label and
cover, his name aud that of the preparation were
bossed the bottles and the corks scaled 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, 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 una"quain'ed
with the ring character of the pirates who prey
upoa the reputation othonorable merchants by vend
ing deleter trash under their name that tho 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 tradc
mark of tn, proprietor has been stolen; the ndorse
ment which his schiedam Aromatic schnapps alone
received from the medical profession has boon
claimed by mendacious humbuss; his labels and
bottles have been inflated his advertisements para
parased, his circulars copied, and worse than all,
dshonorsble retailers after disposing Of the genuine
contents of his bottles, have hled them up with
common gin, the most dee'erious 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 Schiedam Aromatic Schnapps Is pre-
scribed as remedy, equally interes;e with the
proprietor in the detection and suppression of these
neiarious practices. The genuine article, manuac-
tured at the 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 Ialun jur2e OF uncqualled pu.
rity. BY process unknown in the preparation of
any other liquor. 1t ia trecl from every acrimonious
and corrosive element
Complaints have been received from The leading
"a
the sale Of cheap limitations of the Schicdam Aro-
matte schnapps in those markets; and travellers,
who in the habit of using 1t an andote to the
bancful influence of unwholesome river water. tes
tify that cheap gin, put up in Schiedam bottles Is
frequently polmed off upon the unwary. The
agents of the undersigned have been requested to
institute Inquiries the subject an1 to forward 10
him the names OF such parties as they may asctr-
tain to bc engaged in the atrocous system of decep
ton. In conclusion the undersigned would say that
he has oeuced, from under the hands of the most
men of science in America, proofs un
of the purity and medicinal excel.
lence OF the Schiedam Aromatic Schnatps tat
LIE has expended many thousand dollnrs in sur
1t with guarantees and safeguards, which
he designed should project the public and himself
against fraudulent limitations; that lie has shown it
10 be The only liquor in tho world that can be uni
formly depended upon al uuadutrratcd; th;t ho hos
investigation analysis, comparison and
experiment in all it's forms; AMI from every ordell
The preparation viii, bears his Dame, seal and trade
mark, has como of triumphant Hc therefore, feels
il duty he owes to Ills felow-citiz generally to
the medical profession and the sick, to denolnce
and expose the charlat ms who counterfeit these cv
dences OF identity and he calls upon the press and
The ublic to aid him in his efforts to remedy great
au evil.
The following letters aud certificates from the |
leading physicians aud che mist OF this city will
to the reader thai all goods sold 1y the under
signe are all that they are repre- cntcd to be.
UDoLPHO WOLFE.