The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-01-26
sfbieoam sfbuapps.
OFFICE OF UDoLpHo WOLFE. |
Sole Importer of We Schiedam Aromatic Schnapps
No 22 Bearer-street.
New YORK, November 3, 1863

New YORK, November 3. 1868.
To the People Of the Southern States'
WHEN THE PURE MEDICINAL RESTORATIVE,
now so widely known as WOLFE'S sCHIEDAM
sCHNAPPS, was in n'roduced into the world under
the endorsement of four thousand leading members
of the medical profession some twenty years ago. its
proprietor was well aware that 1t could not wholly
escape the penalty attached to oil new and useful
preparations He, therefore, endeavorcd 10 invest il
with strongest possible safeguard against counter
feiters and to render all attempts to pirate It dh-
cult and dangerous It was submitted to d'stin'
guished chemists for analysis, and pronounced by
them the purest spirit ever manufactured It's pur1
ty and properties having been thus ascertaned, sam
pies of the article were forwarded to ten thousand
physicians including all the leading practitioners 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 III
the Union promptly responded. Their opinions OF
the article were unanimously favorable. such
preparation, they said had long been wanted oy
the profession as no reliance could be placed on the
ordinary liquors Of commerce, all of which were
more OF less adulterated, and therefore unfit for
medical purposes The peculiar excellence and
strength of the d of juniper which formed one OF
the principal ingredients Of the schnapps together
with an upalloyed character Of the alcoholic ele-
ment, give it, in the estimation OF the faculty,
marked superiority over every other dfusive stinu-
liant as diureiic, tonic and restorative.
These satisfactory credentials from professional
men of tho highest rank were published in con-
densed form, and enclosed with each bottle Of the
Schnapps Us one of the guarantees of Its genuine
moss. Other precautions against fraud we're also
adopted patent was obtained for the article, the
label copyrighted, fac sinic OF the proprieors
autograph signature was attached tn each LABEL ana
cover his name and that of the preparation were en-
Tossed on the bottcs aud the corks were scaled win
bis private seal. No article had ever been sold in
this country under the name of Schnapps prior to
the introduction Of Wolfc'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 thht
year.
It might be supposed BY persons una:quain'ed
with the lring character OF the pirates VINO prey
upon the reputation othonorabe merchants By vend-
ing deeterous trash under their nape that the pro-
tcctions carefully thrown around these Schnapps
would have precludod tho introductions and sole OF
counterfcits. They seem, however. only to have
stimulated the rapacity Of impostor' The trade
mark OF tn, proprietor has been stolen; the tndorse'
ment which his schiedam Aromatic schnapps alone
received from the medical profession has been
claimed by mendacious humbuSs; his labels anu
bottles have been inflated, his advertisements para
phrased, his circulars copied, and worse than all,
dishonorable retailers after dsposng of the genuine
contents of his bottles, have filed them up with
common gip the most dcleerious of all liquors, and
thus made his name and brlnd cover for poison
The public, the medical profession and the sick,
for whom the schiedam Aromatic schnapps is pre-
scrbed as remedy, are equally intercste, with tho
proprietor In the detection and suppression Of these
nciarious practices. Tho genuine article, manulac-
t,ircd at tie establishment Of the undersigned in
schiedan Holland. is distilled FROM barley Of The
finest quality and favored with an essential extract
of the berry of the Italian jurtpe, OF uncqualed p-
rity. by process unknown in the preparation Of
any other liquor it freed from every acrimonious
md corrosive clement.
Complsints have been received from the Leading
physicians and families in the Southern States OF
the sale q: cheap mutations OF the schicdam Aro-
matte Schnlpps in those markets; and travellers,
WHO are in the habit OF using 1t as an dntidoc to the
bancfuI influence of unwhoicsomc river water tes-
tify that cheap gin, put up in Schedam bottles, Is
frequently pal,acd Off upon the unwary. The
agents OF the undersigned have been requested to
institute inquiries on the srbect, ana to forward 10
him the pames Of such parties as they may asctr-
tain to be engaged in the aroci"us system OF deccp
tion. In conclusion the undersigned would say that
lie has produced, from undor the hands of the most
distinguished mcE Of science in America, proofs un
answcrablc OF the purity and medicinal excel
icncc OF the Schicdam Aromatic Schnatps /; that
lie has expended many thousand dollars IN sur
rounding it with guarantees and safeguards, which
he designed should project the public and himself
against fraudulent imitations that he has shown it
10 be the only liquor In the world that can be unl-
formly depended upon unadulterated; that Eo hos
challenged investigation. analysis comparison and
experiment in oil its iorms; and from every ordeal
the preparation viii Il bears his Damc, seal and trade
mark. has come OF triumphant lie, therefore, feels
il duty he owes to s icllow-citz ms eencrally, to
tbe medical profession and the sick, to denounco
and expose the charatdns who counterfeit these evi.
denotes OF identity. and he calls upon the press and
tho ,ubc 10 aid him in his efforts TO remedy so great
an evil.
The following letters aud certificates from the
leading physicians aud che nlsts Of this city will
prove to the reader that all goods sold by the under
signe ore nil that they arc repro cntcd TO be.
UDoLPHo WOLFE.