The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-11-16
Sfbifbant Sfbaapps.
OFFICE OF UDOLPHo WOLFE.
Sole Impo, ter of the Scliedcm Aromatic Schnapps,
No. 22 Beaver-street.
Nrw vopr Nnysmber 3. 1863.


To the People of the Southern States;
WHEN THE PURE MEDICINAL RESTORATIVE.
now 80 widely known US WoLFES SCHIEDAM
SCaNAPPS, was Introduced into the world under
the 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 1t
with strongest possible safeguard against counter
feters, and to render all attempts to pirate 1t dill
cult and dangerous. It was submitted to d'stin-
gushed chemists for analysis, and pronounced by
them the purcs spirit ever manufactured Its pur1-
IS and properties having been thus ascertained, sam
pies of the article were forwarded to ten thousand
physicians including oil 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 long been wanted by
the profession, as reliance could be placed on the
ordinary liquors of commerce, oil OF which were
more or less adulterated and therefore unfit for
medical purpose The peculiar ex ellence 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 it, in the estimation of the faculty,
marked superiority over every other diusive stnu-
liant as diure,ic, tonic and restorative.
These satisfactory credentials from professional
men of the highest rank were published Al con-
densed form, and enclosed with each bottle OF the
Schnlpps. as one of the guarantees OF Its genuine
ness. Other precautions against fraud were aiso
adopted patent was obtained for the article, the
label was copyrighted, fac site of the proprlelors
autograph signature WIS attached to each label and
cover his name and that of the preparation were en-
tossed 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 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.
It might be supposed by persons una"quninied
with the dirng character of the pirates who prey
upon the reputation othonorable merchants by vcnd-
ing deieerous trash under their name, that the pro-
tections carefully thrown around these schnapps
would have prccluded the introductions and sale OF
countcrfcits. They seem, however, only to have
stimulated the rapacity Of impostors. The trade
mark OF th proprietor has been stolen; the indorsc-
ment which his Schiedam Aromatic schnapps alone
received from the medical profession has been
claimed by mentacious humbugs; his labels and
bottles have been inflated his advertisements para
phrased his circulars copied, and worse than all,
dishonorabe retailers after disposng Of the genuine
contents of his bottles, have filled them up with
common ein the most deleterious of ell liquors. and
thus made his name and brInd a cover for poison.
The public. the medical profession and the sick,
for whom the schiedam Aromatic Schnapps is pre-
scribed as remedy, are equally interested with the
proprietor in the detection and suppression Of these
nefarouB practices. The genuine article, manu!ac-
tured At the establishment of the undersigned in
schicdam, Holland, is distilled from barley of the
finest quality, and favored with an essential extract
OF the berry Of tic Italian uipe", of uncqualcd pu
rity. BY process unknown in the preparation oi
any other liquor 1t is freed from every acrimonious
and 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 Aro
matte schnapps in those markets; and travellers
WHO are in the habit OF using an andoie to the
baneful influence Of unwholesome river water. tes
tify that cheap gin, put up in Schiedam bottles, is
fro oucntly rolmed eff upon the unwary The
agents of the undersigned have been requested to
institute inquiries on the subject AMI to forward to
him the names of such parties as they may asctr.
tain to be engaged in the atrocious system OF deep
tion. In conclusion the undersigned would say that
be has produced from under the hands Of the mos'
distngui he'd men Of science in America, proofs un
answcrab!e of the purity and medicinal excel
lence of the Schiedam Aromatic SchnaIps that
he has expended many thousand dollars in sur
rounding it with guarantees and safeguards. which
he designed should protect the public and himsel
aoainst fraudulent limitations; that he has shown II
10 be the only liquor in the world that can be uni
formly depended upon unadulterated; that he has
challenged investigation, analysis, comparison and
experiment In all its forms; and from every ordeal
the preparation viii bears his name seal and trade
mark, hus come off triumphant He, therefore, feels
It duty he owes To his iellow-citiz ms generally to
the medical profession and the sick, to denoance
and expose the carlatans who counterfeit these ev
denotes of identity and he calls upon the press and
The rub!ic TO aid him in his efforts to remedy SO grea
nn evil.
The following letters and certificates from tho
lending physicians and che nist5 Of this city vii
nroye to the reader that all goods sold by the under
signc are all that they arc repre- ented 10 be-
UDOLPHO WOLFE
1tco, hound TO say. that regard your Selma pps