The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-03-10
Sfhieoanl Sfhnapps.
OFFICE OF UDOLpHO WOLFE.
Sole Impoa Ter cfthe Schiedam aromatic Schndpps,
No 22 Beaver.strect.
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Sole Importer cf The Schieddm Aromatic SchndppS,
No 22 Beaver-strect.
NEW York, November .. 1868. J
To the People of the Southern Statcs'
WHEN THE PURE MEDICINAL RESTORATIVE.
now so widely known as WOLFE'S SCH1EDAM
sCHNAPPs, was introduced into the world under
the endorsement of four thousand leading members
of the medical profession some twenty years ago. It's
proprietor was well aware that it could not wholly
escape the penalty attached to all new and use'ui
preparations. He, therefore, endeavored 10 invest
with strongest possible safeguard against counter
feiters and to render all attempts to pirate it dh-
cult and dangerous. 1t was submitted TO d's''n'
guished chemists for analysis and pronounced By
them the purest spirit ever manufactured its purl
ty and properties having oeen thus ascertalned' SAM
piles of the article were forwarded to ten thousand
physicians including all the leading pracntloners 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 opiuions OF
/ the article were unanimously favorable. Such
preparation, they said, had long been wanted by
the profession as no reliance could be placed on the
ordinary LIQUORS of commerce, all of which were
more or less adulterated, and therefore unnt 1or
medical purposes. The peculiar excellence ana
strength Of the OF of juniper. which formed one OF
the principal ingredients of the Schnapps togetner
with an unalloyed character of the alcoholic ce-
ment, give 1t, in the estimation OF the faculty,
marked supero-:ty over every other difusVe samu-
ant as a duretic, 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
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 sink Of the proprielors
autograph signature WIS attached to each label and
cover his name and that of the preparation were en-
bossed the bottles and the corks were sealed win
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 unacquain'ed
with the daring character of the pirates who prey
upon the reputation ofhonorabe merchants by vend-
ing deleerous trash under their name, that the pro-
tections 30 carefully thrown around these Schnapps
would have precluded the introductions md sale OF
counterfeits. They eeenn, however, only to have
stimulated tho rapacity of lmpostors. The trade
mark OF th, proprietor has been stolen; the ndorse
| meut which his Schicdam Aromatic Schnapps alone
received from tho medical profession has been
claimed by mendacious humbugs; his labels and
bottles have been initiated. his advertisements para
phrased, his circulars copied, and worse than oil,
dishonorable retailers after disposing OF the genuine
contents of his bottles, have filled them up with
common ein the most deleterious of all liquors. and
thus made his name and br,nd q cover for poison.
The public, the medical profession and the SICK
! for whom the Schiedam Aromatic Schnapps ls pre-
scribed as a remedy, are equally interested with the
proprietor in the detection and suppression of these
neiarious practices. The genuine article, manuac-
turcd at the establishment of the undersigned in
chiedaIn, olland is distilled from barley OF the
finest quality, and favored with an essential extract
of the berry of the Italian juuiper, of uncquaed pu.
rity BY 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 tho Schiedam Aro-
matte Schnapps in those markets; and travellers,
WHO are in the habit OF using it as an andoe to the
baneful influence of unwhoesome river wator. tes-
tify that cheap gin put up in Schiedam bottles. Is
frequently palmed 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 asctr-
tain to be engaged in the atrocous system OF decep-
tion In conclusion, the undersigned would say thnt
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
leuce of the Schiedam Aromatic Schnapps; that
| lie has expended many thousand dollars In sur
rounding 1t with guarantees and safeguards, which
he designed should protect the public and himself
against fraudulent imiations that he has shown 1t
to be the only liquor in the world that can be uni
formIy depended upon as unadulterated that no has
challenged investigation, analysis, comparison and
experiment in all Its forms; and from every ordeal
the preparation whilh bears his name, seal and trade
mark, has come of triumphant He, therefore, feels
IL duty he owes to his iellowcitzens generally to
| the medical pro- 5sion and the sick, to denounce
aud expose the rnaratans who counterfeit these evil
dencies OF identity, and he calls upon the press and
the ,ubc TO aid him in his efforts to remedy SO great
| au evil.
The following letters aud certificates from the
leading physicians and che nist' OF this city will
prove to the reader that all goods sold by the undcr
signed are all that they are repre ented to be.
UDOLPHO WOLFE.
| Heel bound to say that I regard your Schnapps
as beng in every respect pre.eminently pure, and
deserving OF medical patronage. at all events, it Is
the purest possible article OF Holland Gin hereto
tore uuobtainabe and as such may DO safely prt
scribed by physicians.
DAVID l.. MOTT, NJ. D.,
Pharmaceutical Chemist, New York