The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-01-05
Sfbieoau, Sebnapps.
OFFICE OF UDOLPHO WOLFE,
Sote Impo' ter Of the Sctieddm Aromatic Schnapps
No 30 Bonvcr-strect.
NEW YORK, November 3, 1868


OFFICE OF UDOLPHO WOLFE.
Sole Impo' ter Of the Schiedam Aromatic iSchnapps
NO 30 Bcnvcr-street.
New YORK, November ). 1868.
To the People of the Southern states,
WHEN THE PURE MEDICINAL RESTORATIVE.
now 80 widely known as WOLFE'S SCHIEDAM
sC9NAPPS, was in reduced into the world under
the endorsement Of four thousand leading members
OF the medical profession twenty years ago. it's
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 safea against counter
feiters and to render all attempts to pirate it diff
cult and dangerous. 1t submitted to distin-
guished chemists for analysis, and pronounced by
them the purcst spirit manufactured It's puri-
ty and properties having been thus certaincd
pies of tho article wero forwarded to ten thousand
physicians including all the leading practitioners in
tho 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 a
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 adulterated. and therefore unfit for
medical purposes The peculiar excellence and
strength of the OF of juniper, which formed OF
the principal ingredients of the schnapps, together
with an unalloyed character OF the alcoholic ele-
ment, give it. in the estimation Of the faculty, q
marked superiority every other dfusive stimu-
liant dure,ic, tonic and restorative
These satisfactory credentials from professional
men of the highest rank were published in a con-
densed FORM and enclosed with each bottle of the
Schnapps, as of tho guarantees of Its genuine.
ness. Other precautions against fraud were also
adopted; patent was obtained for the article the
label was copyrighted, simite of the proprieors
autograph signature was attached to each label and
cover, his name and that Of the preparation were M
bossed the bottes 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 Wofe'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 unacquained
with the during character of the pirates who prey
upon the reputation ofhonorable merchants by vend-
ing deeter.ous trash under their name that the pro-
tections carefully thrown around these Schnapps
would have precluded the introductions and sale Of
counterfeits. They seem, however, only to have
stimulated the rapacity of impostors The trade
mark of tn, proprietor has been stolen the
ment which his Schiedam Aromatic Schnapps alone
received from the medical profession has been
claimed by mendacious humbugs; his labels and
bottles have been initiated, his advertisements para
phrased, his circulars copied, and worse than all,
dishonorable retailers after disposng of the genuine
contents of his bottles, have filled them up with
common GIN, the most deleserious Of all liquors, and
thus made his name and brlnd a cover for poison
The public. the medical profession and the sick,
w tha GCI1io
scrtbe' ) remedy, are equally interested with the
proprietor In the detection and suppression of these
nefarious practices. The genuine article, manuiac-
tured at the establishment of the undersigned in
Schtedam Holland, is distilled from barley of the
finest quality, and favored with essential extract
OF the berry Of the Italian juripe of uncqualed pu-
rfty. BY process unknown in the preparation of
any other liquor. it is freed from every acrimonious
and corrosive element.S
Complaints have 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 It Antidote to the
baneful influence Of unwholesome river water tes.
tify that cheap gin, put up in Schiedam bottles Is
frequently palmed off upon the unwary. The
agents of the undersigned have been requested to
institute inquiries the subject and to forward to
him the names Of such parties as they may asc,r-
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
distinguishe men Of science In America, proofs un
aDswerable 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 protect the public and himself
against fraudulent imitations that lie has shown It
to be the only liquor in the world that can be uni.
formly depended upon uundulterated; that lie has
challenged investigation. analysis comparison and
experiment in all Its forms; and from every ordeal
the preparation whi bears his name. seal and trade
mark. has come of triumphant He, therefore, feels
1t duty he owes to his tellow-citzcns generally to
he medical profession and the slck, to denounce
and expose the chnratans 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 @4
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 under
signe are oil that they repre- ented to be.
UDOLPHC WOLFE.
feel bound to say, that regard your Selma ,ps
as being in every respect pre-smnently pure and
the purest possible article of Holland Gin hereto
tore unobtainable. and as such may be safely pre
scribed by physicians 5r. N.sf- q.
DAVID L. MOTT. M D..
Pharmaceutical Chemist, New York.
20 PINE-srnEEr, NEW YoRK,
November II, 1857.
UpoLPno woLs. Esq, Iresent. .y'.s,-e s
Dear Ssr--I have madea chemical examination OF
sample of your sch,edam schnapps, with the in
tent Of determining If any foreign or Injurious sun
stance had been added to the simple distilled spirits
Inc examination has resulted the conclusion
that the sample contained no poisonous or harmful
admtxture have been unable to discover any
trace OF the deeterious substances wich are eIn.
ployed in the adulteration Of liquors. would not
hesitate to use myself or to recomme nd to Others.
for medicinal purposes, the Schiedam schnapps ss
an excellent and unobjectonable variety of GIN
Very respectfully yours,
(aigned,) 0HAS. A. SEELY. Chemist u
NEW YonK, No. 53 CEpAn-srREEr. n,
November 20, 1857
UDoLPHo WOLFE, Esq, Preseat s
4 Dear Sir! have submitted to chemical ANALYSIS
two bottles OF ssSchieialn Schnapvs which tanir