The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-11-26
Sfbifban1 Sfbnapps.
OFFICE OF UDoLpHo WOLFE. |
Sole Impo7 ter of the Schieddm Aromatic Schnapps
No. 2a Beaver.street.
NFw YnRK November 5. 1863.
To the People of the Southern States:

! No. 20 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
! SC4NAPPS, 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 aware that it could not wholly
escape the penalty attached to all new and useful
preparations He therefore, endeavored TO invest it
with strongest possible safeguard against counter
feiters and to render oil attempts to pirate it diff
cult and dangerous. 1t was submitted to dtstin'
| guished chemists for analysis, and pronounced by
them the purest spirit ever manufactured Its puri-
~ 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 opiOions of
the article were unanimously favorable. Such
preparation, they seid, had long been wanted by
the profession 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 OF of juniper which formed one OF
the principal ingredients of the Schnapps, together
with an unalloyed character of the alcoholic ele-
ment give ii, in the estimation of the faculty, q
marked superiority over every other diusivc stuu-
lapt as a diuretic, tonic 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 sme of the proprielors
autograph signature was attached to each label and
cover his and that of the preparation were en-
bossed on the bottles and the corks 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 unacquainied
with the dlring character of the pirates who prey
upon the reputation ofhonorable merchants by vend-
ing deeter;ous trash under their name that the PRO-
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 trade
mark of tn, 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
phraseG, his circulars copied, and worse than all,
dishonorabe retailers after disposng of the genuine
contents of his bottles, have filed them up with
common gin, the most deleterious of all liquors, aud
thus made his name and brInd cover for poison
The public, the medical profession and the sick,
for whom the Schicdam Aromatic schnapps is pre-
scribed as remedy, are equally Dtereste with the
proprietor in the detection and suppression of these
neiarious practices. Tho genuine article, manufac
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 the Italian juniper. of unequaed pu-
rity. By 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; and travellers,
who in the habit of using it antidotc to the
baneful influence Of unwholesome river water. tes-
fy that cheap gin, put up in Schiedam bottles, is
frequently palued of 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 arocious system of decep-
ton In conclusion. The undersigned would say that
he has prod 0uced 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 1t 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 az unaduterated; that he has
challenged investigation analysis. comparison and
experiment in oil Its forms; and from every ordeal
the preparation which bears his name seal aud trade
mark has come Off triumphant. He therefore, feels
it duty he owes to his felow-citizens generally, to
the medical profession and the sick to denouncc
and expose the charlatins who counterfeit these evil
denotes of identity, and he calls upon the press and
the rrbc to aid him in his efforts to remedy so great
an evil
The following letters aud certificates from the
leading physicians and che nst' Of this city will
prove to the reader that oil goods sold by the under
signe are all that they are repre- cnted to be.
UDoLPHo WOLFE.
I feel bound to say, that I regard your Schnapps
as being in every respect pre-eminentiy pure, and
deserving OF medical patronage At oil events, 1t is
the purest possible article of Holland Gin. hereto
fore uuobtainable. and Us such may be safely pre-
scribed By physicians.
DAVID L. MOTT, NJ. D.,
Pharmaceutical Chemist, New York.
&c PISE.sTREET, NEW YoRK,
November 81, 1867.
UDoLpHo WOLFE, Esq, Present:
Dear Sir-I have made a chemical examination of
O sample of your Schiedam Schnapps, with the in-
tent Of determining ii any foreign or injurious sub
stance had been added to the simple distilled spirits.
The examination has resulted IN the conclusion
that the sample contained poisonous or harmful
admixture I have been unable to discover any
trace OF the deleterious substances wich are en-
ployed in the adulieraion of liquors. l would not
hesitate to use myself to recommend to others,
for medicinal purposes, the Schiedam Schnapps as
an excellent and unobjectionable variety Of gin.
Very respectfully yours,
(Siened,) CHAS A. SEELY, Chemist.
New YORK. No. So CEDAR-sTREET.
November 26, 1867.
UpoLpHe WOLFE, Esq. Present:
Dear Sir-I hoye submitted to chemical anay SIS