The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-04-10
SfbieSam Sfbnapps.
OFFICE OF UDoLpHo WOLFE. |
So e inlpo,h'r ftac schiedam Aromatic Schndpps,
No 22 Bcavef-streot.
NEW YnRK November 81 lS6S.
To the People of the Southern States :

To the People of the Southern Statcs:
WHEN THE PURE MEDICINAL RESTORATIVE,
now widely known as WoLFE'S SCHIEDAM
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 usetui
preparations He therefore, endeavored to invest il
with strongest possible safeguard against counter
feiters. and to render all attempts to pirate 1t df
cult and dangerous. It was submitted to d'stin'
guished chemists for analysis, and pronounced D!
them The purest spirit ever manufactured It's pur1
ty aud 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 md
report of the result, accompanied each specimen.
Four thousand of the most eminent medlcai men III
the Union promptly responded Their opinions OF
the article were unanimously favorable. sacn
preparation, they said had long been wanted by
tile profession as no reliance could be placed on the
ordinary liquors Of commerce. all OF which were
more r less adulterated, and therefore unfit for
medics. purposes. The peculiar excellence and
strength of the oi of juniper, which formed one OF
the principal ingredients of the schnapps. together
with an unalloyed character of the alcoholic ele-
ment, give ii. in the estimation OF the faculty, q
marked superiority over every other difusiVe samu-
liant as dturetc. tonic and restorative.
These satisfactory credentials from professional
men of the highest rank we're published in con-
densed form, and enclosed with each bottle Of the
Sohnapps, as one of the guarantees OF Its genuine
ness. Other precautions against fraud were dlso
adopted; patent was obtained for the article, the
label was copyrighted, fac sic of the proprelors
autograph signature was attached to each label and
cover his name and that of the preparation were em:
boased on the botes and the corks were sealed with
his private seal. No article had over 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 unarquain'ed
with the daring character OF the pirates who prey
upon the reputation ofhonorabe merchants by vend-
lug deeterous trash under their Dame that the pro-
tectons so carefully thrown around these schnapps
would have precluded the introductions and sole OF
counterfeits. They seem, however, only to have
stimulated the rapacty OF impostors. The trade
mark of tc proprietor has been stolen; the indorse
ment which his schiedam Aromatic schnapps alone
received from she medical profession has been
claimed by mendacious humbugs; his labels and
bottles have been inflated his advertisements para
phrased, his circulars copied, and worse than all,
dishouorable retailers after disposng OF the genuine
contents of his bottles, have Alled them up with
common gin, the most deleterious Of all liquors, aud
thus made his name and br,nd cover for poison.
The public the medical profession and the sick,
for whom the schiedam Aromatic Schnapps is pre-
scribed as remedy, are equally nterestei with the
proprietor in the detection and suppression of these
nefarious practices The genuine article, manulac-
tured at the establishment Of the undersigned in
chiedam, Holland, is distilled from barley Of the
finest quality und favored with an essential extract
of the berry of the Italian juniper OF uncqualed pu-
rity By process unknown in the preparation OF
any other liquor it is freed from every acrimonious
and corrosive clement.
Complaints have been received from the leading
physicians and families in the Southern States OF
the sale of cheap imitahons Of the Schiedam Aro-
matte Schnapps in those markets.; and traVeners,
who are In the habit of using 1t as an andotc to the
baneful influence of unwholcsome river water. tes-
tfy that cheap gin, put up in Schiedam bottles, ID
frequently palmed off upon the unwary. The
agents of the undersigned have been requested 10
institute inquiries on the subject, and to forward to
him the names Of such parties as they may ascrr-
tain to be engaged in the atrocious system of decep
tion In conclusion. the undersigned would say that
he has prod duced from under the hands Of the most
distinguished men CT science In America, proofs un
answerable of the purity and medicinal excel
lcnce 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 ne has shown 1t
10 be the only liquor in the world that can be uni
form,y depended upon as unaduterated; that he hns
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
it duty he owes to lis tcllow-citzens generally, to
the medical profession and the sick, to denounce
and expose the charatans who counterfeit these evi-
denotes of identity and he calls upon the press and
the tubc 10 did him in his efforts to remedy great
an evil
The following letters and certificates from the
leading physicians and chemists of this city will
prove to the reader that a goods sold by the under-
siene are all that they are repre- ented to be.
UDoLPHO WOLFE.
Itcel bound to say, that regard your schnapps