The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-12-02
Sfbieaaul sfbnapps.
OFFICE OF UDoLPHo WOLFE,
'cie Impo, ter of The Schiedam Aromatic Schnapps,
No. 22 Beavcr-street.
NRY YORK November 5. 1868


Sole Impo, ter of The Schisddm aromatic Schndpps,
No. 22 Beavcr-street.
NEW YORK, November 8. 1868.
To the People of the Southern States:
WHEN TIE PURE MEDICINAL RESTORATIVE,
now 30 widely known as WOLFE'S sCHIEDAM
SCaNAPPS, 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 1t
with strongest possible safeguard against counter
feiters, and to render all attempts to pirate it diff
cult and dangerous It was submitted to distin-
guished chemists for analysis, and pronounced by
them the purest spirit ever manufactured. Its pur
ty and properties having been thus ascertaned, sam
pies of the article were forwarded to ten thousand
physicians including all the leading practitioners in
the United States, for purposes of experiment. a
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 eaid had long been wanted by
the profession as reliance could be placed on the
ordinary liquors of commerce. all of which were
more or less sdulterated, 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 unalloyed character of the alcoholic ele.
ment, give it, in the estimation of the faculty,
marked superiority over every other diusive stimu-
liant as diurec, 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
Schnlpps, as of the guarantees of Its genuine
ness Other precautions against fraud were also
adopted; patent was obtained for the article, the
label copyrighted, fac sine Of the proprelors
autograph signature was attached to each label and
cover, his and that of the preparation were en-
bossed 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 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 ofhonoraole merchants by vend-
tections so carefully thrown around these Schnapps
would have precuded the introductions and sale OF
counterfeits. They seem, however, only to have
stimulate the rapacity Of mpostors. The trade
mark of tn, proprietor has been stolen; the indorse-
ment which his Schiedam Aromatic Schnapps alone
received from tho medical profession has been
claimed by mendacious humbugs; his labels and
bottles have been inflated his advertisements para
phrased, his circulars copied, and worse than oil,
dishonorabe retailers after disposng Of the genuine
contents Of his bottles, have filed them up with
common gin the most deleerious of all liquors, and
thus made his name and brInd cover for poison.
Tho public, the medical profession and the sick,
for whom the Schiedam Aromatic Schnapps is pre-
scribcd as remedy, are equally interested with the
proprietor in the detection and suppression Of these
nearious practices. The genuine article, manuiac-
turcd at 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 uripe, OF unequaled pu'
rity. By q 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 schn1pps in those markets; and travellers
who are in the habit of using it as an antdote to the
baneful influence of unwhocsome river water. tes-
tify that cheap gin, put up in Schiedam bottles Is
frequently pamed 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 asc.r-
nof1
ton IN conclusion. the undersigned would say that
ho has produced from under the hands of the most
distinguished men of science in America, proofs un
answerable of the purity and medicinal excel
lence OF the Schiodam 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 it
10 be the only liquor in the world that be uni
forly deperded upon as unadulterated; 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 tellowctz'ns generally, to
the medical profession and the sick, to denounce
and expose the charatans who counterfeit these evil
denotes Of Identity and ho calls upon the press and
the ubc to aid him in his efforts to remedy great
an evil.
The following letters aud certificates from the
leading physicians and chemist. of this city will
prove to the reader that all goods sold by the under
sicnc DIRE oil that they are repre- ented to be.
UDoLPHO WOLFE
I.ccl bound to say, that regard your Selma BPS
os beinp in eyery respect pre-eminently pure, and