The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-04-10
Sfbieoam Sfbnapps.

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OFFICE OF UDoLpHo woLpL,
Sote lmpo' Ter ~ the Ettieddn, ArOmdtc Sctndpps,
No 30 Beaver-styeCt.
New IoRK, November 3. 1863. 4
TO the People OF th6 Southern states,
WHEN THE PURE MEDTCIN N. RESTORATIVE,
now SO widely knorn 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. it's
proprietor was we'll aware that it could not wholly
escape the penalty attached to all new and useful
preparations. He, therefore, endeavorod to invest ii
with strongest possible safeguard against counter
feiters and to render all attempts to pirate 1t diff
cult and dangerous It submitted to distn.
guished chemists for analysis, and pronounced by
them the purest spirit ever manufactured Its puri-
ty and properties having been thus ascertaincd,
pies of the article 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
tie Union promptly responded. Their opipions of
the article were unanimously favorable. Such
preparation, they said, had long been wanted by
the profession as no reliance could be placed the
ordinary liquors Of commerce. all of which were
more or less aduterated. and therefore unfit for
medical purposes The peculiar excellence and
strength Of the OF of juniper, which formed Of
the principal ingredients of the schnapps. together
with an nnalloycd character of the alcoholic ee-
ment. give it. in the estimation of the faculty.
marked superiority every other difusive stimu-
liant as dturetic 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 It's genuine
ness. Other precautions against fraud were also
adopted; patent was obtained for the article the
label copyrighted, fac smie OF the proprietors
autograph signature attached to each label and
cover his name aud that of the preparation were en-
bossed on the botes and the corks 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.
1t might be supposed by persons unacquainte ed
with the daring Character of the pirates who prey
upon the reputation Of honorable merchants by vend-
ing deleterous trash under their name that the pro-
tections carefully thrown around these schnapps
would have precluded the introductions and sale Of
couAterfeits. They seem, however, only to have
stimulated the rapacity of impostors. The trade
mark Of the proprietor has been stolen the indorse
received from the 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 ALL
dishonorabe retailers after dsposing of the genuine
contents Of his bottles, have filed them up with
common gin, the most deoterious Of all liquors. aud
thus made his name and brand cover for poison.
The public, the medical profession and the sick
for whom the schiedam Aromatic schnapps is pre-
scribed remedy, equally interested with the
proprietor in the detection and suppression Of these
nefarious practices The genuine article manufac-
tured at the establishment OF the undersigned in
chiedam, Holland, is distilled from barley of the
finest quality and favored with an essential extract
Of the berry of the italian juniper Of uncqualed pu-
rity. BY n 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 cheap limitations Of the Schiedam Aro-
mahc Schnapps In those markets; and travellers,
who in the habit of using 1t antidote to the
baneful influence Of unwholesome river water. tes-
tify that cheap gin, put up in schedam bottles, is
agents OF the undersigned have been requested 70
institute inquiries on the subject and to forward to
him the names Of such parties as they may ascer-
tain to be engaged In the atrocious system Of decep-
ton In conclusion the undersigned would saw that
he has produced, from under the hands of the most
distinguished men Of science In America proofs nm
answerable of the purity and medicinal excel
lence OF the Schiedam Aromatic schnapps that
he has expended many 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 II
to be the only liquor in the world that can be uni
formiy depended upon as uuaduterated; that he has
challenged Investigation. analysis. comparison and
experiment In all Its fornas; and from every ordeal
the preparation which bears his pame seal and trade
mark. has come of triumphant. de- therefore feels
1t dutyhe owes to his fenow-citzens generally to
the medical profession aud the sick, to denounce
and expose the charlatans who counterfeit these evil
dences of identity and he calls upon the press and
the public to aid him In his efforts to remedy SO great
an evil. s#M
The following letters and certificates from the
leading physicians and che nists Of this city will
prove to the reader that all goods sold by the under!
siene are oil that they are repre ented to be- "
&Ef- UDOLPHO WOLFE.
feel bound to say, that regard your Selma ops
as being IN every respect pre.eminently pure, and
the purest possible article Of Holland Gin hereto
tore unobtainaole, and as such may be safely pre-
soribed by physicians -
fea Pharmaceutical Chemist, New York
rs pINE-srnERr, NEW Yorx.,
November al. 1857
UDoLPHo WOLFE, Esq., Ffeseat: 't
Dear Sir--I have made o chemical examination of
sample Of your Schtedam SchnappS, with the In
tent Of determning If any foreign o. Injurious sub
stance had been added to the simple disled spirits
The examination has resulted in the conclneinn
that the sample contained poisonous or harraftl
admixture. / have been unable to discover alay
trace ot the deletsrious substances wich are EN-.