The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-12-15
Sfbifbant lSfbnapps.
OFFICE OF UDOLPHo WOLFE. /
Sole Enpo, ter of the Scaiedam Aromatic Schndpps,
No, 22 Beaver.street.
Nrw yopK November g. 1868,

Sole Empoa ter Of the Sctieddm Aromatic Schndpps
No; 22 Beaver.street.
New YORK, November 8. 1868.
To the People of the Southern States:
WHEN THE PURE MEDICINAL RESTORATIVE
now so widely known as WOLFE's sCHIEDAM
sCaNAPpS, was in reduced into the world under
the endorsement of four thtrsand leading members
of the medical profession some twenty years ago. Its
proprietor wns well aware that 1t could not wholly
escape the PENALTY attached to all new and useful
preparations. he, therefore, endeavored to invest 1t
with strongest possible safeguard against counter
feiters and to rendor all attempts to pirate it dii-
| cult and dangerous. It was submitted to dtsin.
guished chemists for analysis, and pronounced by
them the purest spirit ever manufactured Its puri-
ty and properties having been thus 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 eacE specimen.
| Four thousand of the most eminent medical men in
the Union promptly responded. Their opiuions OF
| the article were unanimously favorable. Such o
preparation, they said, had long been wanted by
the profession as no reliance could be placed on the
ordinary liquors of commerce. oil Of which were
| moro 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 unalloyed character of the alcoholic elc-
ment, give it, in the estimation of the faculty, o
marked superiority over evory other diffusve stinu-
lant as diureic, 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
ness. Other precautions against fraud were also
adopted; patent was obtained for the article the
label was copyrighted, fac sne of The proprieiors
autograph signature was attached TO each label and
cover, his name aud that of the preparation were en-
bosscd the bottes and the corks were sealed with
his private SEAL No article Ind 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 unacqnaip'ed
With the dIring character of the pirates who prey
upon the reputation ofhonorable merchants by vend-
ing dceterious trash under their name that the pro-
tectons so carefully thrown around these Schnapps
would have precuded the introductions and sale Of
countcrfeits. They seem, however, only to have
stimulated the rapacity of impostor5. 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 initiated. his advertisements para
phrased, his circulars copied and worse than all,
dishonorabe retailers aftor dsposng of the genuine
contents of his bottles, have filed them up with
common en the most deeterious Of all liquors, aud
thus made his name and brlnd cover for poison.
The public, the medical profession and the sick,
for whom the Schiedam Aromatic schnapps is pre-
scrbcd a remedy, equally interested with the
proprietor in the detection and suppression Of these
nearious practices The genuine article, manulac-
.ured ut 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 Italian urpc of uncqualled pu-
rity. by process unknown in the preparation Of
any other liquor 1t is freed from every acrimonious
and corrosive clement
Complaints havo been received from the loading
physicians aud families in the Southern States of
the sale of cheap limitations of the Schedam Aro-
matte Schnapps In those markes; nnd travellers,
who are in the habit of using it as an antidote to the
banefnl influence of unwholesomo river water, tes.
tify that cheap gin put up In Schiedam boLtlcs is
frequently palmed Off 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
ton In conclusion the undersigned would soy 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 II with guarantees and safeguards, which
he designed should protect 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 as uuadulteratcd that he hos
challenged investigation, analysis, comparison and
experiment in all Its forms and from every ordeal
the preparation wh.h bears his namc seal and tradc
mark has come Off triumphant. He, therefore, feels
Il duty he owes to lis fellow-ctizens generally, to
the medical profession and the sick, to denounce
and expose the charlatans who counterfeit these evil
denotes of identity ard he calls upon the press and
tho ublic to aid him in his efforts to remedy so great
an evil.
The following letters aud certificates from the
leading physicians and chemists OF this city will
prove to the reader that all goods sold by the under
siQne are all that they are repre- ented TO be.
uDoLPHo WOLFE.
Iiee bound to say, that regard your Schna2rs
as being in every respect prc-cminently pure, and
deserving of medical patronage At all events, it is
the purvst possible nrticlc OF Holland Gin. htrctc-
fore understandable. and Us such may be safely pre-
scribed by physicians.