The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-12-12
Sfbifoan1 Stbnapps.
TO the People OF the Southern States:
OFFICE OF UDoLPHo WOLFE.
Sole Impo, ter Of the Schieddm Aromdtic SchnoRps,
No. az Beaver-strect.
Nrur Nnvenher g. 1888.


NO. az Bcaver-strect.
NEW YORK, November 8. 1868.
To the People OF the Southern States;
WHEN THE PURE MEDICINAL RESTORATIVE.
now so widely known as WOLFE'S sCHlEDAM
! SC9NAPPS, 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 uc Therefore cndeayored to invest ii
with strongest possible safeguard against counter
feiters and to render ell attempts to pirate it diff
cult and dangerous. 1t was submitted to d'stin-
| guished chemists for analysis, and pronounced by
them the purest spirit manufactured ls purl-
ty and properties having been thus ascertained sam
pies Of the article forwarded to ten thousand
physicians including all tho leading practitioners IN
the United States, for purposes of experiment.
circular, requesting trial Of the preparation anu
report Of the result accompanied eacn specimen
-Four thousand of the most eminent medical men ID
the Union promptly responded Thor opinions OF
the article were unanimously favorable Such
preparation, the, said, had long been wanted by
tbc n-ofesson as no reliance could be placed on the
/ ordinary LIQUORS of commerce, all of which were
more or less adulterated. and therefore unns for
| medical purposes. The peculiar excellence anu
strength of the OF of Juniper which formed one Oh
the principal ingredients Of the Schnapps. together
with an uralloyed character OF the alcohohc eIe-
ment. give it, in the estimation OF the faculty.
marked superiority over every other diusivo shmu-
liant as diure,ic, tonic and restorative
These satisfactory credentials from professional
men of the highest rank we're published in con-
aor1, hntfln
schnapps as one of the guarantees of Its genuine
nees. Other precautions against fraud were @lso
adopted patent was obtained for the article, the
label was copyrighted, fac sirie OF the propIieors
autograph signature was attached TO eacn iaOe' ano
cover his name aud that Of the preparation were en-
bossed on the bottles and the corks were sealed Win
his private SEAL No article had ever been so!d IN
this country under tho name Of Schnapps prior 10
the introduction Of Wolfe's schiedam Aromatic
schnapps, in 1851 and the labol was deposited, as
his trade mark in the United States District Court
for the Southern District of New York during TINT
year.
1t might be supposed by persons unarquained
with the dlring character of the pirates who prey
upon the reputation ofhonorable merchants by vcnd-
ing dcleterous trash under their nane that the pro-
tecsons so carefully thrown around those schnapps
would have precuded the introductions 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 peen
claimed by mendacious humbugs; his labels and
bottles have been initiated his advertisements para
phrased, his circulars copied, and worse than all,
dishonorabe retailers after dsposng OF the genuine
contents of his bottles, have filed them up with
common gin, the most deeierious of all liquors, aud
thus rnado his name and brlnd cover for poison.
The public, the medical profession and the sick.
for whom the schiedam Aromatic schnapps is pre-
scribed as ronedy, equally interested with the
proprietor in the detection and suppression OF these
nearious practices Tho genuine article manu'ac-
tured at the establishment Of the undersigned in
Schiedam, Holland, is distilled from barley OF The
finest quality and favored with essential extract
of the berry Of the italian urpe" of uncqualled pr-
rity. BY process unknown in the preparation OF
any other liquor it is treod 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-
who are in the habit of using it Us an andotc to the
baneful influence Of unwholesome river water. tes-
tify that cheap gin, put up in Schiedam bottles Is
frequently palmed off upon the unwary. The
agents of the undersigned have beon requested to
institute inquiries the subject ana to forward to
him the names of such parties as they may asctr-
tain to be engaged in the arocious system of derep
tion In conclusion. the undersigned would say that
he has produced, from under the hands Of the most
distinguished men of science in America, proofs un
answerable OF the purity and medicinal excel
lcnce OF the Schiedam Aromatic Schnapps that
he has expended many thousand dollars in sur
rounding 1t with guarantees and safeguards, which
he designed should project tho public and himself
against fraudulent imitations that he has shown 1t
to be tho onyliquor in the world that can be uH1-
formly depended upon as unaduteratcd; that lie has
challenged investigation, analysis, comparison and
experiment in oil Its forms; and from every ordeal
tine preparation which bears his Dame seal and trade
m,rL, has come of triumphant Re therefore, feels
il duty he owes to his tcow-citz.ns generally to
the medical profession and the sick, to denounco
and expose the charatans who counterfeit these evil
denotes OF identity and he calls upon the press and
the rublc TO aid him in his efforts to remedy great
an evil.
The following letters aud certificates from the
leading physicians and che nisti OF this city will
prove to the roader that oil goods sold BY tho under
sisnc are all that they arc repro ented to be.
UDoLPHO WOLFE.