The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1869-02-04

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% BEAVER STREET, NEW YORK,
NOVEMBER 8, 1868.
To the People of the Southern States /:
When the pure medicinal restorative, now 80
widely known as Wofes Schedam Schnapps was
introduced into the world under the endorsement OF
four thousand leading members OF the medical
profession some 20 years ago, its proprietor was
we'll aware that it could not wholly escape the
penalty attached to all new and useful prepara-
tious. He therefore, endeavored TO invest it with
strongest possible safeguard against counterfeters,
and to render all attempts TO pirate 1t difficult and
dangerous. 1t was submitted to distinguished
chemists for analysis, and pronounced by them the
purest spirit ever manufactured. Its purity and
properties having been thus ascertalned, samples
OF the article were forwarded to ten thousand ply
Sicians, including all the leading practitioners in
tie 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 opin-
ions of the article were unanimously favorable.
Such preparation they said, had long been wanted
by the profession, as 10 reliance could be placed
on the ordinary liquors Of commerce, all of which
were more or less aduteraed, and therefore unit
for medical purposes. The peculiar excellence and
strength of the oil of juniper, which formed one
of the principal ingredients of the Schnapps, to-
gethcr with an unalloyed character of the alcohol
c element. give it, in the estimation of the faculty,
marked superiority over every other difusive
stimuiant rs diuretic, tonic and restorative.
These satisfactory credculinls from professional
men of the highest rank were published in a 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 was obtained for the article.
the label was copyrighted, q tac sinle Of the pro-
prietor's autograph signature was attached TO each
label and cover, his name and that of the epara-
ton were embossed on the bottles, and the corks
were sealed with his private seal. No article bad
ever 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 Uni
ted States District Court for tic Southern District
of New York that year.
1t might be supposed by persons unacquninted
with the daring character of the piga es who prey
upon the reputation of honorable merchants by
vending dcleterious trash under their name, that
the protection so carefully thrown around these
Schnapps would have prccluded the Introduction
and sale of couuterfeits They seem, however, TO
have only stimulated the rapacity of imposters
The trade mark of The proprietor has been stolen;
Schnapps alone received from the medical profess
sion has been claimed by mendncious humbugs;
his labels and bottles have been initiated, his ad-
verisements paraphrased his circulars copied, and
worse than ALL dishonorable retailers, after dispo-
sing Of the genuine contents of his bottles, have
filled them up with common gin, the most delete
rious of all liquors, and thus made his name and
brand cover fer poison.
The public, the medical profession and the sick,
ot; oh 10
prescribed as remedy, are equally interested
with the proprietor in the detection and suppress
sion Of these neiarious practices. The genuine
article manufactured at the establishment of the
undersigned in Schiedam, Holland, is distilled
from barley of the finest quality, and favored
with an essential extract of the berry of the Ital
ian juniper, of unequalled purity. by process
unknown in the preparation Of any oiher liquor,
it is 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 SclIicdam Aro-
matte Schnapps in those markets; and travellers,
who are in the habit of using it us an antidolc 10
the baneiul influence OF unwho'csome river water
testify that cheap gin, puc up in Schiedam bottles
is frequently pamrd of upcn the unwary. The
agents Of the undersigned have been requested TO
institute inquiries on the subject. and to forward
10 him the names of such parties as they may as
certain TO be engaged in the alrociOus system Of
deception. In conclusion. the undersigned would
say that he has produced, from under the hands of
the most distinguished men Of science in America,
proofs unanswcrable OF tie purity and medicinal
excellence Of the Schcidam Aromatic Schnapps:
that lie has expended many thousand dollars in
surrounding it with guarantees and safeguards.
which he designed should protect the public and
himself against fraudulent imiIaions that lie has
shown it To be The only liquor in the world that
can be uniformly depended upon as unadultcrated;
that he has challenged invesli igation. anal lysis,
comparison and experiment in Mi its forms; and
from every ordeal the preparation which bears his
name seal and trade mark, has come off trum-
phan lie therefore feels il duty he owes TO
his fcllow-cizens generally, 10 the medical pro-
fcssion and the sick, TO dcnouncc and expose the
charatans who counterfeit these evidences of
identity, and he calls upon the press and the pub
lie to aid him in his efforts to remedy SO great an
evil.
The following letters and certificates from the
leading physicians and chemists of this city will
prove TO the reader that all goods sold by the
dersigucd are all they are represented to be.
UDOLPuO WOLFE.
I feel bound o say, that regard your Schnapps
as being in every respect pre-eminently pure, and
deserving of medical patronage. all events. it
is the purest possible article OF Holland Gin, here
rnfore unobiainable and as such may be safely pre-
acri ,ed by physicians.
DAVID L. MOTT. NJ. D..
Pharmaceutical Chemist, New York.
26 PINE STREET, New YORK. Nov. 81, 1867.
UpoLpuo WOLFE, Esq, Present:
DEAR SIR: have made chemical examination
of sample of your Schicdam Schnapps, with the
intention of determining if any foreign or injurious
substance had been added to The simple distilled
spirits
The examination has resulted in Tie conclusion
that the sample contained no poisonous or harmful
admi1ture | have been unable to discover any
trace of the delctcrious substances which arc enl
poyed IN the aduleraion of liquors. | would not
hesitate to use myself or to recommend to others,
ror medicinal purnoses the Schiedain Schnapps as