The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-12-16
Sfbisoant Slbnapps.
OFFICE OF UDoLpHO WOLFE.
e Inlp0' ter Of The Schiedam Aromatic SchnaRps,
No 22 Beaver street.
NEW YORK, NUFtIHUU. D, IoOo'
mo .bo pnooro oe 49, SoutI,.r,, Sf,fes.

No 22 Beaver street.
New YORK, November s. 1863
To the People of the Southern States: E
WHEN THE PURE MEDICINAL RESTORATIVE,
now so widely known as WOLFE'S SCHIEDAM
SCHNAPPS, was in reduced 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. H.: therefore, cndeaYored to invest ii
with strongest possible safeguard ngainst counter
feiters and to render all attempts to pirate it diff
cult and dangerous. 1t submitted to d'stin-
Suished chemists for analysis, and pronounced by
them the pures spirit ever manufactured. Its puri-
t. and properties having been thus ascertaincd, SAM
pies of the article were 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 long been wanted by
the p-oession 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 purposes. The peculiar excellence and
strength of the OF Of juniper. which formed one Of
the principal ingredients OF the SchHapps. together
with an uraloyed character of the alcoholic ele-
ment, give it, in the estimation of the faculty. q
marked superiority every other difusire stmu-
liant as diureiic, tcnic 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
neqs. Other precautions against fraud were also
adopted patent was obtained for the article, the
label was copyrighted uc smite OF The proprletors
autograph signature was attached to each label and
cover his name aud that of the preparation were en-
tossed on the bottles aud 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 schedam 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 TT
year.
1t might be supposed by persons unacquainled
with the ring character of the pirates who prey
upon the reputation othonorable merchants by vcnd-
ing delcterous trash under their name, that the pro-
tectons SO carefully thrown around these schnapps
would have prccluded the ntroductions and sole OF
counterfcits. They seem, however, only to have
stimulated the rapacty of impostor'. The trade
mark OF til proprietor has been stolen the ndorse
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
phrascd, his circulars copied, and worse than all,
dishonorabe retailers after disposng of the genuine
contents Of his bottles have filled them up with
common gin, the most deleorious of a liquors, aud
thus made his name and brInd cover for poison.
Tho public, the medical profession and the sick,
for whom ihe Schicdam Aromatic schnapps is pre-
scribed as remedy are equally intercs;c with the
proprietor in the detection and suppression OF these
neiarious practices. The genuine article mauuiac-
turei at tie establishment Of the undersigned in
Schicdam, Holland, is distilled from barley of the
finest quality and favored with essential extract
of the berry of The italian juuipc oil uncquallcd pu-
rity. By 4 process unknown in the preparation OF
any other liquor it 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 the Schiedam Aro-
matte Schnapps in those markets; nnd travellers,
who are in the habit OF using it as al antidoc to the
baneful influence Of unwholesomc river water. tcs-
tify that cheap gin, put up IN Schiedan bottles is
frequently palmed off upon the unwary. The
nGcut< of the undersigned have been requested to
institute inquiries Oh the subject, and to forward 10
him the names Of such parties us they may asctr-
tain to be engaged in the atrocious system of dercp
ton In conclusion the undersigned would say that
he has produced, from under the bands of the most
distipru> hcd men OF science in America. proofs un
answerabe of the purity and medicinal excel
lence of the Schiedam Aromatic Schnapps ; that
lie 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 he has shown it
TO be the only liquor in the world that be uni
formly depended upon as unaduterated; that he has
challenged investigation, analysis, comparison and
experiment in oil its forms; and from every ordeal
the preparation viii, bears his Dame seal aud trade
mark, has come OF triumphant. He therefore, feels
it duty he owes to lis ellov-cit;z ms generally to
the medical profession and the sick, to denouncc
and expose the charlaans who counterfeit these evil
denotes of identity and he calls upon the press and
The lubc to aid him in his efforts TO remedy great
an evil.
The following letters aud certificates from tho
leading physicians and che mist of this city will
prove to the reader that all goods sold by the UNDER
signc are oil that they are repre- cntcd to be.
UDoLPHO WOLFE