The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-01-19

OFFICE OF UDoLPHO WOLFE.
oote Impo' ter Of the Schicd0se Aromatic Schndpps
NO 30 Bcaver-street.
NEW YORK. November 3. 1868.
10 the People or the Southern Statess
WHEN THE PURE MEDICINAL RESTORATIVE,
now SO widely known as WOLFE'S SCHIEDAM
sCHNAPPS, was IN! roduced into the world under
the endorsement of four thousand leading members
OF the medical profession some twenty years ago. it's
proprietor was we'll aware that Il could not wholly
escape the penalty attached to all and useful
preparations He, therefore, endeavored to invest il
with strongest possible safeguard against counter
feiters and to render all attempts to pirate it diff
cult and dangerous It was submitted to dstin.
guished chemistsA for analysis, and pronounced by
them the pures spirit ever manufactured. Its puri-
" and properties having been thus ascertained sam
pies OF the article were forwarded to ten thousand
physicians including all the leading practitioners in
tho 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 a
preparation, they said, had long been wanted by
the profession, as no reliance could be placed the
ordinary liquors Lof commerce.. all of which were
more or less adAlterated. and therefore unit for
medical purposes. The peculiar ex 'ellence and
the principal ingredients of the schnapps together
with an unalloyed character of the alcoholic ele-
ment. give 1t. in the estimation OF the faculty,
marked superiority over every other diffusve sti mu
liant as diureic, tonic and restorative.
These satisfactory credentials from professional
men OF the highest rank published in q con-
densed form, and enclosed with each bottle of the
schnapps. as one of the guarantees Of it's genuine.
ness. Other precautione against fraud also
adopted; patent was obtained for the article the
label was copyrighted, fac sttie of the proprieors
autograph signature attached to each label and
cover, his name and that of preparation were
bossed on the bottes and the were sealed with
his private seal. No article had ever been sold in
ths country under the name Of Schnapps prior to
the introduction Of Wofe's schiedam Aromatic
schnapps, in 1851; and the label was deposited, as
his trado mark in the United States District Court
for the Southern District of New York during that
year.
1t might be supposed by persons unacquained
with the during character of the pirates who prey
upon the reputation othonorabe merchants by vend-
Ing deleterous trash under their name that the pro-
tecuons so carefully thrown around these Schnapps
would have precluded the introductions and sale Of
counterfeits. They seem, however, only to have
stimulated the rapacity of impostors. The trade
mark of tn proprietor has been stolen the indorse-
ment which his Schiedam Aromatic schnapps alone
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
retailers after dsposing of the genuine
contents of his bottles. have fIled them up with
common gin, the most deleterious of all liquors aud
thus made his name and br1nd cover for poison.
The public the medical profession and the sick
for whom the SChie6an, t{o Cob
scribed as remedy equally interes.ei with the
proprietor in tho detection and suppression of these
nefarious practices. The genuine article, manuiac-
tured at the establishment Of the undersigned in
Sch1edam, Holland, is distilled from barley Of the
finest quality, and favored with 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
Complaint baya been r. e.crA from the leading
phys sssasasas lies Ia tho outhern States of
V tia schiedam Aro-
matte SSsfTapps III StSosg markets; and travellers
who are in tn habit OF usin, Il andote to the
banefp Influence Of unwholesome river water. 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 the subject and to forward to
tain to be engaged in the atrocious systa of decep
tion. In conclusion the undersigned would say that
he has produced, from under the haud&of the most
distinguished men Of science in America proofs un
answerabie of the purity and medicinal excel.
Ience 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 imitations that he has shown it
to be the only liquor in the world that can be uni
fornly depended upon unadulterated; that he has
challenged investigation. analysis, comparison and
experiment in all its forms; and from every ordeal
the preparation which bears his name seal and trade
mark, has come of triumphant. He, therefore, feels
1t dutyh he owes to his tellow-citizens generally to
he medical profession and the sick, to denounce
and expose the charlatans who counterfeit these evi
dencies OF identity, and he calls upon the press and
the public to aid him in his efforts to remedy SO great
an evil rstrtH
The following letters aud certificates from the
leading physicians and che nlsts OF this city will
prove to the reader that all goods sold by the under
signed are Gil that they are repre- ented to be.
UDOLPHO WOLFE.
feel bound to say that regard your Selma ops
as being In every respect -eminently pure, and
the purest possisle article of Holland Gin hereto
fore unobtainaole. and as such may be safely pre-.
scribed by physicians.
DAVID L. MOTT ND
Pharmaceutical Chemist, New York
20 pINE-srREET, New YORK,
November 81, 1867. I a'
UDoLPHo WOLFE, Esq, Present. ~
Dear Sir-I have male chemical examination of
q sample OF your Soh!edam Hchnepps, with the in
tent of determining If any foreign Injurious sub.
stance had been added to tn. simple distilled spirits
The examination has resulted In the conclusion
IN orr h .S,,I
admtxture. have teen unable to discover any
trace OF the deleerous substances wich are en-.
ployed In the aduteraton of liquors. 1 would not
hesitate to myself or to recomme nd to others
for medicinal purposes, the Schledam Schnapps as
an excellent and unobjectionabie variety of GIN
Very respectfully yours,
@ (signed,) GHAS. A. SEELY. Chemist.
NEW York, No. 80 CEDAR-srRxET. -