The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-12-07
Sfbiebant Sfbnapps.
OFFICE OF UDOLPH0 WOLFE, |
Sole Impo, ter ofthe Schiedam dramatic SchndppS |
No. 22 Bcavcr-strect.
NEW YORK, NofelHoer o, 1910.

NEW YORK, NOfeIuDer o, 1oOO. ]
To the People of the Southern States:
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 some twenty years ago, its
proprietor was we'll aware that 1t could not wholly
escape the penalty attached to all new and useful
preparations He therefore, cndcavored 10 invest it
with strongest possible safee uard against counter
feiers and to render all attempts to pirate it diff
cult and dangerous 1t was submitted to distin-
guished chemists for analysis, and pronounced by
them the pures spirit ever manufactured Its puri-
ty 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
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 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 oi of juniper, which formed one OF
the principal ingredients of the Schnapps together
with an uralloyed character of the alcoholic ele-
ment, give it, in the estimation of the faculty,
marked superiority over every other diusive smu-
liant as diuretic, tonic and restorative.
These satisfactory credentials from professional
men of the highest rank were published in q 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 snaie of the proprieiors
autograph signature WAS attached to each label and
cover his name anG that Of the preparation were en-
tossed 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 SchnRpps 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 unacquained
with the d,ring character of the pirates who prey
upon the reputation ofhonorable merchants by vend-
ing deeterous trash under their name that the pro-
would have precluded the introductions and sale OF
counterfcts. They seem, however, only to have
stimulated the rapacity Of impostors. Tho trade
mark OF th proprietor has been stolen; bc indorse-
ment which his Schiedam Aromatic schlapps alone
received from the medical profession has beon
claimed by mendacious humbuss; his labels and
bottles have been inflated his advertisements para
phrased, his circulars copied and worse than all,
dishonorable retailers after dsposing OF the genuine
contents of his bottles, have filled them up with
common gin the mos. dee.erious Of all liquors, and
thus made his name and brInd cover for poison.
The public the medical profession and the sick,
for whom the Schiedam Aromatic schnapps is pre-
scrbed as q remedy, equally intereste' with the
proprietor in the detection and suppression of these
nefarious practices. The genuine article, manuiac-
tured at the establishment of the undersigned in
schiedam Holland is distilled from barlcy of the
finest quality and favored with IN essential extract
of the berry of the italian uriper of uncquacd pu-
rity. Dy 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-
maic Schnapps in those markets; and travellers,
who are in tho habit OF using 1t as IN antidoe to the
baneiul influence of unwholesome river water. tes-
tify that cheap gin. put up In schiedam bottles is
frequently palmed of upon the unwary. The
agents OF the undersigned have been requested to
institute inquiries the subject, and to forward to
him the names of such parties as they may asctr-
tain to be engaged in the atrocious system of decep
ton. In conclusion the undersigned would say that
he has prod duced from under the hands Of the most
distinguished mon Of science in America. proofs un
answerable of the purity and medicinal excel
lence of the Schiejam 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 1t
10 be the only liquor in the world that can be uni
formly depended upon as unaduterated; that he has
challenged investigation, analysis, comparison and
experiment in all Its forms; and from every ordeal
the preparation whi bears his name, seal and trade
mark, has come of triumphant. he, therefore, feels
it duty he owes to his telowcitz"ns generally, to
the medical profession and tho sick, to denounce
and expose the charlatans who counterfeit these evil
denotes of identity and he calls upon the press and
the public to aid him in his efforts remedy so great
au evil.
The following letters and certificates from the
leading physicians and che nists of this city will
prove to the reader that oil goods sold by the under
signel are oil that they are repro cnted to be.
UDoLPHO WOLFE.