The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-01-14

Sole fWp0f ter OF the Sch1eqGHl AT0H1dttc
No. 20 Beaver-street.
New YORK, November 8. 1868.
20 the People Of the Southern States:
WHEN THE PURE MEDICINAL RESTORATIVE.
now SO widely knonn as woLFE'S scHIEDAM
SCHNAPPS, was Introduced 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 oil new and useful
preparations. He, therefore, endeavorcd 10 invest ii
with strongest possible safeguard against counter
fciters, and to render all attempts to pirate it diff
cult and dangerous. It was submitted to dstin'
suished chemists for analysis, and pronounced by
them the pures spirit manufactured Its puri-
Ly and properties having been thus ascertained sam
pies of the article were forwarded to ten thousand
physIcsns 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
tho article were unanimously favorable. Such
preparation, they said, had long been wanted by
the profession reliance could be placed on the
ordinary liquors of commerce, all Of which were
more CT 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 ee-
ment. give it, in the estimation Of the faculty,
marked superiority over every other diusive stimu
liant as diuretic tonic and restorative
These satisfactory credentials from professional
men of the highest rank were published in con-
densed form, and enclosed with ench bottle Of the
Schnapps. Gs of the guarantees of Its genuine
ness. Other precautions against fraud were also
adopted; patent obtained for the article. the
label copyrighted, FAC site of the proprieors
autograph signature was attached to each label and
cover his name and that of the preparation were en-
tosscd on the bottles apd 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 wus 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 unacquain'ed
with the dlring character of tic pirates who prey
upon the reputation othonorabe merchants by yend-
ing dcoterous trash under their name that the Fro
ections so carefully thrown around these Schnnpps
would have precluded the introduclions and sole OF
counterfcits. They seem, however, only TO have
stimulated the rapacty of impostors. The trade
mark of til; proprietor has been stolen; the indorse
mcnt which his Schiedam Aromatic Schnapps alone
received from tho medical profession has been
claimed by mendacious huWbugs; his labels and
bottles have been initiated. his advertisements para
r,1,r aea5 ri md
dshono-able retailers after disposirg the genuine
coutents Of his bottles, have fllled them up with
common Gin, tho most deleerous of all liquors. and
thus made his name and brInd cover for poison.
The public, the medical profession and the sick,
fo- whom The Schiedam Aromatic schnapps is pre-
scribed as q remedy are equally intereste with the
proprietor in the detection and suppression &C these
neiarious practices. The genuine Article, mauulac-
tured at tie establishment of the undersigned in
schiedan Holland, is distilled from barley of the
finest quality, and favored with an essential extract
OF the berry Of the Italian uaipe, Of uncquaed pu'
riiy. By process unknown in the preparation of
any other liquor. it is freed from every acrimonious
and corrosive clement.
Complaints have been received from the lciding
physicians and families in the Southern States of
the sale of cheap lmitahons Of the schiedam Aro-
matte schnlpps in those markets; and travellers,
who are in the habit Of using it antidoe to the
bancful influence of unwholcsomc river water. tes-
tiy that cheap gin, put I'M In Schedam bottles, Is
frequently palmed of upon tho unwary. The
agents of the undersigned have been requested to
institute inquiries on the sbect, and to forward to
him the names of such parties as they may ascrr-
tain to be engaged in the arocious system Of docep
tion. In conclusion. the undersigned would say TINT
be has produced, 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 Schnarps that
he has expended many thousand dollars in sur
rounding 1t with guarantees and safeguards, which
he designed should project the public and himself
against fraudulent limitations; that he has shown 1t
to bc 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 ordcol
the preparation wh bears his name, zeal md trade
mark, has Of triumphant. He, therefore, feels
IL duty he owes to his tellow-citizens generally, to
he medical profession and the sick, to dcnounco
and expose the charatans who counterfeit these evi.
denotes of identity and he calls upon the press and
the public 10 aid him in hs efforts TO remedy 80 great
On evil.
Tho following letters aud certificates from the
leading physicians and che mist; of this city will
prove to The reader that all goods sold by the under
siCnc are oil that they are repre- ented to be.
UDOLPHo WOLFE.
I feel bound to say, that regard your Schnapps
as bc,us in every respect pre-tninently pure, aud
deserving OF medical patronage At al events, it is
the purcss possible article of Holland Gin. hereto
lore uuoUtauaplc. anil AZ such may be safely pre-
scribcd By physicians.
DAVID L. MOTT, W. D.,
Pharmaceutical Chemist, New York.
% IISg-srEEET New YoRS,
November -, 1857.
UpuLrIiv WOLFE, ESQ., Present:
Dear Sir have male q chemical examination OF
u sample of your Schlcdam >ohnapps, with tho ill.,
lent ur determining II any foreign or injurious snh
e:anca i,ad bccu added TO th simple distilled spirits
The examination has resulted In tho conclusion
t,as tue su:nplc contained no POISONOUS or harmful
a,lmix;tlre | have le.n uuablo to discover any
taco OF tho Gccicrious substance, wicil are en-
pluyed In tho uluituralicn Of liquors. would NOT
c.;taio To use myself or TO rcconInt nd 10 others