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sebiesa,R sebuapps.
OFtICE OF UDOLpIIO WOLFE,
80 c Impo' ter u lie Schicddm aromatic SchndppS,
NO an HenveT-Street.
New YoRf November 8, 1868.


To the People of tho Southern states,
WHEN THE PURE MEDICINAL RESTORATIVE,
now so widely known WOLTE'S SCHIEDAM
CINAPPS, was in reduced into tho world under
the endorsement OF four thousand leadin members
OF the medical profession some twenty years ago. its
proprietor was well aware that it could not wholly
escape the penalty attached 10 all new and useful
preparations He therefore, ondeavored to invest il,
with strongest possible safeguard against counter
feiters, and to- render all attempts to pirate it diff
cult and dangerous 1t was submitted to distin.
gulshed chemists for analysis, and pronounced by
them the purest spirit ever manufactured. It's pur
ty and properties having thus ascertaned sam
pies of the article forwarded to ten thousand
physicians including all the leading practitioners IL
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
preparation, they said, had long been wanted by
the profession as reliance could be placed the
ordinary liquors of commerce. all Of which were
moro or less adulterated. and therefore unfit for
medical purposes. The peculiar ex ellence and
strength of the OF of JUNIPER which formed one Of
the principal ingredients of the schnapps together
with unalloyed character of the alcoholic ele.
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 we're published in o 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 obtained for the article the
label was copyrighted, 1ac ste Of tho preprieor's
autograph signature attached to each label and
cover his name aud that of the preparation were
bossed on tho bottles and the corks sealed with
his private seal. No article had been sold in
this country under the name of schnapps prior to
the Introduction of wolfe's schiedam Aromatic
schnapps, in 1854; and the label 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 unacquainled
with the daring character of the pirates who prey
upon the reputation honorable merchants by vend
ing deleterous trash under their that the pro-
tectons 80 carefully thrown around these sohnapps
would have precluded the introductons and sale of
counterfeits. They seem, however only to have
stimulated the rapacity of 1mpostors. The trade
mark OF tn, proprietor has been stolen the indorse
ment which his Schiedam Aromatic Schnappe alone
received from the medical profession has been
claimed by mendaceuA humbugs; his labels and
phrased, his circulars copied. and worse than all,
dishonorable retailers after disposng of the genuine
contents of his bottles, have filed them up with
common gin, the most deleterious of all liquors and
thus made his name and br md cover for poison.
Tho public the medical profession and the sick,
for whom tho schiedam Aromatic schnapps pre-
scribed as remedy, equally nterestet with the
proprietor in the detection and suppression these
netarious practices. The genuine article. manulac-
tured at the establishment OF the undersigned in
chiedam, Holland, Is distilled from barley of the
finest quality and favored with essential extract
Of the berry Of the Italian juulper, Of uncquaed pu-
rity. BY process unknown in the preparation Of
any other liquor 1t s 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-
matte schnapps In &aegp markets; ind travellers.
who in tie habit of using it ttidote to the
baneful influence Of unwnolesoniS river water tes-
tiny 'nat chap gin, put up In schieUa1h bottles is
frequently palnae6, OF upon tho unwary The
agents OF the undersigned hnve beon requested to
institute inquiries on the subject, and TO forward to
him the names of such parties as they may asccr-
tain to be engaged in the atrocious system of decep
ton. In conclusion. the undersigned would say that
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
lence OF the Sctdedam 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 IL
to be the only liquor in the world that can be uni
formly depended upon as unaduterated that he has
challenged Investigation, analysis, comparison and
expesiInent in all it's forms and from every ordeal
~ oS1,anrn okio,v ~ n. -;
mark, has come of triumphant. He, therefore. feels
1t duty he owes to his fehOw-citzens generally to
the medical profession and the sick. to denounce
and expose the charlatans who counterfeit these evil
denotes OF identity and he calls upon the press and
the pubic to aid him in his efforts to remedy go great
an evil.
The following letters aud certificates from the
leading physicians and che n1sts of this city will
prove to the reader that all goods sold by the under
signed are all that they are repres e. ID to be.
UDOLpHO WOLFE.
feel bound to say, that I regard your Selma Dps
as being In every respect pre-eminently pure and
deserving Of medical patronage. At all events 1t is
the purest possible article OF Holland Gin hereto
tore unobtaanaole, and US such may be safely pr.
scribed BY physicians.
Pharmaceutical Chemist, New York
2e PINEsrREET, NEW YoRK.)
November al, 1867.
UDoLpHo WoIEE Esq. Present:
Dear Siy-Ihave made chemical examination OF
asa sample Of your soh,edam sohnapps, with the in.
stance had been added the simple dislIed spirits
The examination has resulted IN the conclusion
that the sample contained poisonous or harmful
admxture have be.n unable to discover any
trace OF the deleterious substances wich are EN-.
ployed In the sdulteraion Of liquors. I would not
hesitate to use myself or to recommt nd to others
tor medicinal purposes, the schiedam Schnapps as
an excellent and unobjectionable variety of gin.
Very respectfully yours,
(signed,) CHAS. A. SEELY, Chemist.
New YonE, No. 63 CRDAa-srREET.
November 20, 1887.
UDoLpHo WozSE, ESD. Present
Dear SiT-i have submitted to chemical anaysis
TWO bottles OF "schieaam schnapps," which took
from frosh package in your bono ed warehouse, ana
fnd. as before, that the spirituous liquor s tree
from injurious ingredients or falshcatlon: that It
has the marks OF beng aged aud not recently pre-.
pared py mechanical admixsure of alcohol and aro-
naetics. I1a-
Respectfully, FRED. r. MAYER.