The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1869-01-07
Office of Udolpho Wolfe,
SOLE IMPORTER OF THE
Schiedam Aromatic schnapps,
e %. BEAVER, STREET, NEW YORK,
NOVEMBER 8, 1SGS.
,..70 the People oflthe Southern States

When the pure medicinal restorative, now SO
widely Known as Wolfes Schicdam Schnapps, was
iutroduced into the orld under the endorsement OF
-FOUR >1housaud leadfhgA members of the medical
profession some 20 years ago, its proprietor was
we'll aware that it cohld not wholly escape the
penalty attached TO all new and useful prepara-
lions He therefore, endeavored TO invest il with
strongest possible safeguard against countercitcrs,
naa 10 render all attempts to pirate it difficult aud
:, dan serous- 1t was submitted to distinguished
chemists for analysis, and pronounced by them the
purest spirif eFer manufactured. It's purity and
properties having been thus ascerteined, samples
Of the article were forwarded 10 ten thousand ply
sidans,- including all the leading practitioners in
|he United States for purposes OF experiment.
circular, requesting trial OF the preparation and
a report of The result, accompanied each specimen.
Four thousand Of the most eminent medical men
in, the Union promptly responded. Their opin-
:ions of ssthe article were unanimously favorable.
Such preparation they saio, had long been wanted
:. by the profession, as reliance could be placed
,on the ordinary liquors of commerce, all of which
were more or less mdueraed, and therefore unfit
for medical purposes. The peculiar excellence and
strength of the oil OF jHnipsr, which formed
of the prisctpnl ingredients of the Schnapps, to-
gether with an unalloyed character Of the alcohol
ic element give it, in thecstirnatien OF the faculty.
q marked superiority over every other diifusive
stimuiant as diuretic, tonic and restorative
These satisfactory cred entails from professional
men Of the highest rank were published in con-
denscd 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, fac sile Of the pro-
prietor's autograph signature was attached 10 each
label and cover, his name and that Of the plepara
tion were embossed 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
SShnapps prior to the introduction of Wolfe's
SeAiedam Aromatic Schnapps, in 1851; and the
label was deposited, his trade mark, in the Uni
ted States District Court for the Southern District
&, of New York that year.
IL might be supposed by persons unncquainted
with the daring character of the pirates who prey
upon the reputation of honorable merchants by
vending deleterious trash under their name, that
the protection so carefully thrown around these
s.Schnapps would have precludcd the introduction
and sale of counterfcits. They seem, however, to
have only stimulated the rapacity of imposters.
The trade mark of the proprietor has been stoien
the Endorsement which his Schiedam Aromatic
Sehnaups alone received from the medical profess
.uionjhas been claimed by mendacious humbugs
his labels and bottles have been initiated, his al
vertisements para phrased, his circulars copied and
worse than all, dshonorabe retailers, after dlspo
Sing of the genuine contents of his bottles, have
filled them up with common gin, the lnost delete
'rious of all liquors, and thus made his name and
Brand cover for poison.
The public, the medical profession and the sick,
for whom the Schiedhn Aromatic Sehnapps is
prescribed as remedy, arc equally interested
with the proprietor in the detection and suppress
sion Of these nctarious 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 IN essential extract of the berry of the Ital-
ian juniper, of unequalled purity. by process
unknownin the preparation of any other 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 Schiedam Aro-
matte Schnapps in those markets; aud Travellers
-ho are in the habit of using it as an anidote 10
ahe baneful influence of ,unwholcsome river water,
testify that cheap gin, put mp in Schedam bottles,
is frequently palmcd off upon the unwary The
agents of the undersigned have been requested to
institute inquiries on the subject, and TO forward
to him the names Of such parties as they may as
certain to be engaged in the atrocious system OF
decenti0n. In Conclusion the unders gned would
saw that he has produced from under the hands of
tb. most distinguished men of Science in America,
proofs unanswerable Of Che purity and medicinal
excellence of the Scheidam Aromatic Schnapps;
that he has expended many thousand dollars in
surrounding it with guarantees and safeguards,
svbichahe designed should protect the public and
himself against fraudulent limitations; that hc has
shown it to be the only liquor in the world that
csa be uniformly depended upon as unadulterated;
that he has challenged investigation. analysis