The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-11-24
Sfbiesaltt Sfbnapps.
OFFICE OF UDoLPHo WOLFE.
Sole In,po, ter of the Schiedum Aromatic Schndpps,
No. 22 Bcnvcr-strect.
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No. 22 Bcnvcr-strect.
NEW YORK, November 8. 1868.
To the People OF the Southern States:
WHEN THE PURE MEDICINAL RESTORATIVE,
now so widely known as w0LFE's sCHIEDAM
SC4NAPP5 was introduced 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 il
with strongest possible safeguard against counter
feiters and to render all attempts to pirate 1t diff
cult and dangerous 1t was submitted to dstin-
guished chemists for analysis, and pronounced by
them the puresl spirit ever manufactured. Its puri-
y 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 emiuent medical men in
the Union promptly responded. Their opinions OF
the article were unanimously favorable. Such
preparation, they said, had long boen wanted by
the profession as reliance could be placed on the
ordinary liquors of commerce, all Of which were
moro 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 Schnappe. together
with an unalloyed character Of the alcoholic ee-
ment, give 1t, in the estimation of the faculty,
marked superiority every other diusive stimu-
liant as diurelic, tonic and restorative.
These satisfactory credentials from professional
men of the highest rank were published in con-
.oo1, hot of
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 snliLc of the proprieors
autograph signature was attached to each label and
cover his name and that of the preparation were en-
Tossed on The bottles and the corks sealed with
bis private seal. No article had over been sold in
this country under the namo Of Schnapps prior to
the introduction Of Wolfes 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 thht
year,
It might be supposed by persons una:quainied
with the d,ring character of the pirates who prey
upon the reputation ofhonorable merchants by vcnd-
ing dcleterous trash under their nae that the Pro-
tections so carefully thrown around these Schnapps
would have precluded the inroductions and sole OF
counterfeits. They seem, however, only 10 have
stimulated the rapacity of impostora. The trade
mark of tn, proprietor has been stoen the indorse-
ment which his schiedam Aromatic schnapps alone
received from the medical profession has Deon
claimed by mendacious humbugs; his labels and
bottles have been inflated, his advertisements para
phrased, his circulars copied, and worse than oil,
dishonornble retailers after disposng OF the genuine
contents of his bottles, have filed them up with
common gin, the most dele:erious of a liquors, and
thus made his name and brInd cover for poison
Tho public, the medical profession and the sick,
for whom Tho Schedam AromGtic Schnapps is pre-
scribed as a remedy, equally interes;e with the
proprietor in the detection and suppression OF these
netarious practices. The genuine article, malulac-
tIred at tie establishment Of the undersigned in
schieda1n, Holland is distilled from barley of the
finest quality, and favored with essential extract
of tho berry of the italian uripe", OF unequacd pu-
rity. By process unknown in the preparation OF
any other liquor 1t is treol from every acrimonious
and corrosive clement.
Complaints have been received from the ieadln9
physicians and families In the Southern States OF
the sale of cheap limitations of the Schicdam Aro-
matte Schnapps in those markets; and travellers,
who are in the habit OF using it Us an antoe to the
banefu influence of unwholesomo river water tes.
tify that cheap gin, put up in Schedam 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 asc'r-
tain to bc engaged in the atrocous system OF decep
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
lencc OF tho Schiedam Aromatic SchRarps that
he has expended many thousand dollars in sur
rounding 1t with guarantees and safeguards, which
he designed should protect the public and hinaeh
against fraudulent imiations 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 which bears his name, seal and trade
mark, has come of triumphant He, therefore, 1ceis
It duty he owes to his fellowcitz1ns generally to
the medical profession and the sick, to denounce
and expose the charat1ns who counterfeit these ev
denotes of identity and lie calls upon the press and
the ublic to aid him in his efforts to remedy so great
an evil.
The following letters and certificates from the
leading physicians and chemists of this city will
prove to The reader that a goods sold by the under
sicne] are all that they are repre- eAted to be.
UDOLPHO WOLFE.
Ifcel bound to say, that regard your Schnapps
as being in every respect pre-eminently pure, ana
deserving medical patronage. At oil events, II Is
the purest possible article of Holland Gin, hereto
fore unobtainablc ard as such may be safely pre-
scribed by physicians.
DAVID L. MOTT, NJ D.,
Pharmaceutical Chemist, New York.
90 rISE-sTnEET, New York,
November u, 1867.
UDoLpHo WOLFE Esq, Present:
Dear Sir-I have made q chemical c1aminauon Oh
sample of your Schledam Schnapps, win the H.
tcnt Of determining If any foreign or injurious sur
stance had been added 10 the simple distilled spirits
The examination has resulted Ill the conclusion
that the sample contained no poisonous or harmful
adrnixturc have teen unable to discover any
trace OF the deleterious substances wich are en-
ployed in the adulteraion of liquors. would not
hesitate to use myself or to recommend to others,
for medicinal purposes, tho Schiedam Schnapps US
an eycellcut and unobicctionRble variety OF GIN.