The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-01-13
Sfbiebunl Sfbnapps.
OFFICE OF UDoLpHo WOLFE. l
ole Inlpo, ter of the Sciieddni aromatic Ihndpps,
No 22 Bcaver-street.
NEW YORK, November 8, 1868.

Sole Inpo, ter OF the Schiedani aromatic thndpps,
No 22 Bcaver-street.
NEW YORK, November 8. 1868.
TO the People Of the Southern States:
WHEN THE PURE MEDICINAL RESTORATIVE.
row 80 widely known as woLFE'S ScHIEDAM
SCHNAPPS, was in. reduced into the world under
the endorsement of four thousand leading members
Of the medical profession twenty gears ago. Its
proprietor was well aware that it could not wholly
escape the penalty attached to all new and useful
preparations. He, therefore, endeavorcd 10 invest
with strongest possible safeguard agnnst counter
feiters, and to render ell attempts to pirate it dii
cult and dangerous. It was submitted to d'stin'
eulehed chemists for analysis, and pronounced by
them the purest spirit ever manufactured. Its puri
ty and properties having been thus ascertaned, SAM
pies of the article wer, forwarded to ten thousand
physicians. including oil the leading practitioners in
tie United States for purposes of experiment.
circular requesting trial of the preparation and
report of Ihe 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 no reliance could be placed on the
ordinary liquors of commerce, oil Of which were
more or less adulterated, and therefore unfit for
medical purposes. Tho peculiar excellence and
strength of the oi of juniper. which formed one OF
tho principal ingredients Of the schnapps. together
with un uralloyed character of the alcoholic ele-
ment give It. in the estimation of the faculty, a
marked superiority every other dfusive stimu-
liant as diure,ic, tonic and restorative.
These satisfactory credentials from professional
men of the highest rank were published in con-
depsed 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 copyrighted fac sin,ic of The proPrfeIors
autograph signature was attached to each label and
cover his name aud that Of the preparation were en-
Tossed on the bottles aud the corie were scaled with
his private seal. No article had ever been sold in
this country under the namc Of Schnapps prior to
the introduction of Wolfe,s Schiedam Aromatic
schnapps In 1851; and the labol was deposited, as
his trade mark, in tho United States District Court
for the Southern District Of New York during that
year. :. 10
It might be supposed By persons una:quainied
with the dlrirg character OF the plra,es who prey
upon the reputation ofhonorable merchants by Vend-
ing deeterous trash under their name, thai the Fro.
tectics 30 carefully thrown around these schnapps
would have precludcd the introductions and sae 81
counterfeits. They seem, however, only to have
stimulated the rapacity of impostors. Tho trade
mark of tn, proprietor has been stolen; the ndorse-
mont which his Schicdam Aromatic Schnapps alone
received from the medical profession has been
cluiCncd by mendacious humbugs; his labels and
bottles have been initiated, his advertisements para.
phrased, his circulars copied and worse than all,
dshonorable retailers after dsposing Of The genuine
contents of his botties, have filed them up with
common Gin, tho most dee.erious of all Liquors. and
thus made his name and brInd cover for poison.
The public, the medical profession and the sick,
for whom tho schicda.n Aromatic schnapps is pre-
scribed as remedy, equally interested with the
proprietor in the detection aud suppression of those
neiarious practices. The genuine article, lnanuihc-
tured Mt tie establishment of the undersigned in
Schiedan, Holland Is distilled from barley OF the
finest quality, aud favored with an essential extract
of the berry of The italian juuipe OF uncquaed pu.
rity. BY o process unknown in the preparation Of
any other liquor 1t 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 chean limitations Of the Schicdam Aro-
matte Schnarps in those markets; and travellers,
who are In tie habit OF using 1t antidoe to the
banefu influence Of unwholcsome river water tes-
tfy that cheap gin put up iu Schiedam bottles, Is
frequently palmed off upon tho unwary. The
agents Of tho undersigned hayo been requested to
institute inquiries on the subject and to forward to
him the names OF such parties as they may asc,r-
tain to bo engaged in tho atrocous system OF decep-
ton. In conclusion The undersigned would say that
he has produced, from under the bands Of The most
distinguished men Of science In Americn, proofs un
answerable of the purity and medicinal excel
lerce of the Schiedam Aromatic Schnapps that
lie has expended msny 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
to be the only liquor in tho world that can be uni
formly depended upon unadulterated; that he has
challenged investigation. analysis, comparison and
experiment In all Its forms; and from every orde1l
the prcparatIon viii bears his name, seal and trade
mark, has come of triumphant. He therefore, feel,
It duty he owes to his telowcitzrns generally to
he medical profession and the sick, to denounce
and expose the chnrlatans who counterfeit these ev
denotes of identity and ho calls upon the press and
the public to aid him in his efforts to remedy great
on evil.
The following letters aud certificates from the
leading Physicians and che nists of this city Sll
prove to the reador TINT all goods sold toe under
signe arc all that they are ropre epted 10 be.
UDJLPHO WOLFE