The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-01-15
Sfhifbalrl Slhnapps.
OFFICE OF UDoLPHO WOLFE, |
Sole Impo, ter of the Schiedam aromatic Schnapps,
No 22 Benver-strect. (
NEW YORK, November 8. 1868.


OFFICE OF UDoLPHO WOLFE,
Sole Impo, ter of the Schtedam aromatic Schnapps,
No 22 Benver-strect.
NEW YORK, November 8. 1868.
To the People OF the Southern States:
WHEN TIE PURE MEDICINAL RESTORATIVE,
now so widely known as WOLFE'S SCHEDAM
SCHNAPPS, was in reduced 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 it could not wholly
escape the penalty attached to all new and useful
preparations He, therefore, endeavored to invest II
with strongest possible safeguard against counter
feiters and to render all attempts to pirate it diff
cult and dangerous 1t was submitted to distin-
guished chemists for analysis, and pronounced by
them the purest spirit manufactured. Its puri-
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 IN
the Union promptly responded. Their opinions OF
the article were unanimously favorable. Such
preparation, they said, had long been wanted by
the profession, reliance could be placed on the
ordinary liquors Of commerce, all of Which were
more or less aGuiserated, and therefore unfit for
medical purposes. The peculiar excellence and
strength of the OF of juniper, which formed one OF
the principal ingredients of the Scbnapps, together
with an uralloyed character of the alcoholic ele
ment, give 1t. in the estimation Of the faculty,
marked superiority every other diffusive stmu-
liant as diuretic, tonic and restorative.
Ax,a1
men of the highest rank were published in con-
densed form, and enclosed with each bottle of the
Schnapps, as Of the guarantees of its genuine
ness Other precautions sgainst fraud were also
adopted; patent obtained for the article, the
label was copyrighted fac Sin,e of the proprietor's
autograph signature attached to each label and
cover his and that of the preparation were en-
Lossed on the bottles, and the corko were sealed with
his private seal. No article had eve- 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, MS
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 unacquainied
with the iring character of the pirates who prey
ing deleterous trash under their name that the pro-
tcctions 80 carefully thrown around these schnapps
would have precluded tho introductions and sale OF
counterrcts. They seem, however, only to have
stimulated the rapacity Of impostors. The trade
mark of tn, proprietor has been stoen the indorsc-
ment which his Schiedam Aromatic Schnapps alone
received from the medical profession has been
claimed by mendacous humbugs; his labels and
bottles have been inflated, his advertisements para
phrased, his circulars copied, and worse than al,
dshonorable retailers after disposng Of the genuine
contents of his bottles, have filled them up with
common gin, the most dele.erious of all liquors, and
thus made his name ana brJnd cover for poison
Tho public, the medical profession and The sick,
for whom tho Schiedam Aromatic schnapps is pre-
scribed as o remedy arc equally intercstc with the
proprietor in the detection and suppression of these
neiarious practices. The genuine article, manulac.
tured at the establishment of the undersigned in
Scheda1n Holland, is distilled from barley of the
finest quality and favored with an essential extract
OF tho berry of the Itaan juripe-, oil uncquaed pu-
rity. BY process unknown in the preparation OF
any other liquor it is freed from every acrimonious
and corrosive clement.
Complaints hays 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 those markets; and travellers,
who are in the habit OF using tas antdoe to the
baneful influence of unwholesome river water. tes-
tfy that cheap gin, put up In schiedam bottles, Is
frequently palmed of upon the unwary. The
agents cf the undersigned have been requested to
institute inquiries the subject and to forward to
him the names of such parties as they may ascrr
tain to be engaged in the atrocous system Of decep
ton. In conclusion. tho 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 Schiedam Aromatic Schnapps that
he has expended many thousand dollars in sur
rounding 1t with guarantees and safeguards, which
he designed should project the public and himsef
against fraudulent limitations; that lie has shown 1t
to be the only liquor in the world that can be unl-
formly depended upon uuadulterated; that be has
challenged investigation, analysis, comparison and
experiment in allits forms; and from every ordeal
the preparation viii bears his pame, seal and trade
mark, has come of triumphant. BE, therefore, feels
it duty he owes to his tcllow-ctiZcns generally, to
he medical profession and the sick, to denounce
and expose the charatans who counterfeit these evi
dencies of identity, and he calls upon the press and
The pubc to aid him in his efforts to remedy SO great
on evil.
The following letters aud certificates from the
leading physicians and che nists of this city will
prove to the reader that all goods sold hy the under
signc are all that they are repre- ented to be.
UDOLPHO WOLFE.
Ifcel bound to say, that regard your Schnapps
as beng In every respect prc-eminently pure, and
deserving OF medical patronage. At oil events, it Is
the purcst possible article of Holland Gin. hereto
torc uuoutainaOlc. and such may be Bafoly pre-
scribcd by physicians.
DAVID L. MOTT, N. D.,
Pharmaceutical Chemist New York.
26 r1NE-sTREET, New YonK,
November 2l,.lSG7.
UpoLpro WOLFE, Esq, Present:
Dear Sir-I Lave made chemical examination oil
a sample of you, Schledam Schnapps, with the in
tent uf determining ii auy foreign or injurious sub
stance lad been acded to th, simple distilled spirits.
The examination has resulted III the concusicn
that the sample contained no poisonous or harmful
admixlure | have bcrii uDable TO discover any
t,aco oil tile dce:criouS substances wich arc en-
plored in tho O lultcralion Of liquors. would not
hesitate to uso myself or to recommf III to others,
tor medicinal purposes, tho Schicdam Schnapps Us
a., n,,,I ettonable variety of un.