The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-01-16
sfhiesalm stbnapps.
OFFICE OF UDoLPHo WOLFE.
so!s Impo, ter of the Schiedan dramatic Schnapps,
No 22 Beaver-strcct.
Nyry vopu 1263

No 22 Beaver-strcct.
NEW YORK, November 8. 1868.
TO the People Of the Southern States'
WHEN THE PURE MEDICINAL RESTORATIVE.
now so widely known as W0LFE'S SCH1EDAM
SCHNAPPS, was in reduced into the world under
tile endorsement Of four thousand leading members
of the medical profession some twenty years ago. Its
proprietor was we'll aware that it could not wholly
escape the pepalty attached to all new and useful
preparations. He therefore, endeavored to invest
with strongest possible safeguard agninst counter
feiters, and to render all attempts to pirate it di-
cult and dangerous. Il was submitted to distin-
euished chemists for analysis, and pronounced BY
them the pures spirit ever manufactured Its puri-
ty and properties having been thus ascertained, sam
pies of the article we're forwarded to ten thousand
physicians including all the leading practitioners IN
tue United States, for purposes OF experiment..
circular requesting trial Of the preparation and
report of tho result, accompanied each specimen.
Four thousand Of the most eminent medical men IN
the C2ion promptly responded. Their opinions Of
the article were unanimously favorable. Such
preparation, they said had long been wanted by
the profession as no reliance could be placed on the
ordinary liquors of commerce. all Of which were
eAAes So
medical purposes. The peculiar excellence and
strength of the OF 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, o
marked superiority over every other diusive stmu-
LIANT as diurelic, tonic and restorative.
These satisfactory credentials from professional
men of the highest rank were published in con-
densed form, and enclosed with each bottle OF the
Schnapps as one of the guarantees Of its genuine
ncss. Other precautions against fraud were also
adopted; patent was obtained for the article, the
label was copyrighted fac sie Of the proprietor's
autograph signature WIS attached to each label and
cover his name and that Of the preparation were en-
Tossed on the bottles and the corks were sealed with
his private seal. No article had 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 G,ited States District Court
for the Southern District - New York during that
year.
II might be supposed by persons unacquain'ed
with the daring character o. the pirates who prey
upon the reputation ohonorable merchants by vend-
ing deleterous trash under their name, that the pro-
tections so carefully thrown around those Schnapps
would have precluded the introducions and sale OF
counterfeite. They eeem, however, only to have
stimulated the rapacity of impostors. The trade
mark of til, proprietor hes been stolen; the ndorse
ment which his Schicdam Aromatic Schnapps alone
received from the medical profession has been
claimed by mendacious humbugs; Ills labels and
bottles nave been initiated. his advertisements para
phrased his circulars copied. and worse than all,
dishonorable retailers after disposng ofthe genuine
conteuts of his bottles, have filed them up with
common sin the most deleterious Of all liquors, aud
thus made his name and brand cover for poison.
The public, the medical profession and the sick,
for whom the Schiedam Aromatic Schnapps is pre-
scritad as remedy, equally interested with the
proprietor In the detection and suppression OF these
nearous practices. The genuine article, manulac-
tured at the establishment of the undersigned in
schiedan, Holland, is distilled from barley of the
finest quality and favored with essential extract
Of the berry of the Itaon jurtpe, of uncquaed pu'
rity. By process unknown In the preparation Of
any other liquor it is recd from every acrimonious
and corrosive clement.
Complaints haye 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 tho habit OF using it ms m antdote to the
baneful influence Of unwholesome river water. tes-
tify that cheap gia, put up in Schedam bottles is
tre quen.ly palmed OF upon the unwary. The
agents Of the undersigned have been requested to
institute inquiries on the subject, md 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. 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 Schiedam Aromatic Schnnpps thht
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 imitations that he has shown 1t
to be the only liquor in the world that can be uni
formly depended upon o. Inadulterated that he has
challenged investigation, analysis, comparison and
experiment In all lts forms; and from oyory ordeal
the preparation viii h beara his Dame, seal and trade
mark has come of triumphant He, therefore, feels
it duty he owes to his tellowcitzcns generally, to
he medical profession and the sick, to denounce
and expose the charlutans who counterfeit these evil
denotes of identity and he calls upon the press and
the public to aid him in his efforts to remedy so great
an evil
The following letters aud certificates from the
leading physiclans and chemists of this city will
prove to The reader that all goods sold by the under
s,pne ] are all that they are repro ented to be.
UDOLPHO WOLFE.
feel bound to say, that regard your Schnaops
Us being in every respect pre.amiDently pure, and
deserving OF medical patronage 1T all events 1t is
the purGst possible article of Holland Gin, hereto
ioro unobtanablc and ns such may DC safely pre-