The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-03-09
Srbieoaut Sebnapps.
OFFICE OF UDOLpfJO WOLFE,
soc h,po' ter Qfhe Schiedam Arohsssic .Schnapps,
No 90 BcavcR:.gtyect.
NEW YORK, November .. 1868

o.. OFFICE OF UDoLpf5o WOLFF,
Soc h,po' ter qfthe schiedam Aroasssic Schnapps,
No 80 BcavcR:St,ect.
NEW YORK, November y. 1868.
| 10 tho People OF the Southern mates,
WHEN THE PURE MEDIClNlL RESTORATIVE,
now SO widely known wOLFE'S sCuIEDa M
! sCaMAPPS, was Introduced into the worTA under
, the endorsement Of four thousand leading mc,nbere
or the medical profession twenty years ago ,ts
proprietor was well aware that it could not wholly
escape the penalty attached to all new and useful
preparations. He, therefore, endeavorcd 10 invest ii
with strongest possible safes against counter
letters, and to render all attempts to pirate It dif.
cult and dangerous 1t submitted to dustin.
eu'shed chemists for analysis, and pronounced by
them the purest spirit ever manufactured Its puri-
ty and properties having thus asce rtaincd sum-
pies of the article forwarded to ten thousand
physicians including all the leadipg practitioners in
the United States, for purposes OF experiment
circular, reque sting 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 opipions of
| the article were unanimously favorable. Such a
preparation, they said, had hong been wanted by
the profession, aa no reliance could be placed the
ordinary liquors OF commerce, all of which were
more or less adulterated. and therefore unft for
medical purposes. The peculiar excellence and
strength OF the OF Of juniper which formed one of
!,
with an unalloyed character OF. the alcoholic ele-
ment, give it. in the estimation of the faculty. a
marked superiority every other diffusive stimu-
ant as dtureiic. tonic and restorative.
These satisfactory credentials frono professional
men OF the highest rank were published in o 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 obtained fors the article the
otolvv>a .S-IA.
autograph signature attached TO each label and
cover, has name and that Of the preparations were en-
Tossed ON the bottles. and the corks sealed with
his private SEAL No article had ever been sold in
this country under the name Of Schnapps prior to.
the introduction of Wo1fes schtedam Aromatic
schnapps, in 1885, and the label was deposited as
his trade mark in the United States District Court
for the Southern District of New Yorpdurina that
year.
1t might be- supposed by persons unac cquatnted /,
with the daring character of the pirates who prey
upon the reputation ofhonorable merchants by vend-
ing deleterous trash under their that the pro
tectons carefully thrown around these Sohnapps
would have precluded the introducions sale OF.
counterfeitss> They seem, howevez, only to have.,
sumuia'ed: tho rapacity Of impostors. Tie trade |
mark Of tn, proprietor has been stolen 1.-The ndoxse
ment which his schiedam Aromatic sohnapps alone |
received from the medical profession has been |
Claimed by mendacous humbugs;- his, labels and i
bottles have been inflated his Advertisements para
phrased, hts circulars copied, and than all,
roalers after dispos.ng ofthc genuine
contents Of his bottles, have filed them up with |
common ein, the most deleerous Of nil liquors and d,
thus made his name and brand cover for poison..
Inc public, the medical profession and the sick.
for whom. the Schiedam Aromatic Schnapps is. pre-
scrtbed as remedy equally intereste, with the
proprietor In the detection and suppression of these
nefarious psactices. The genuine, article, manuiac-
tured at the establishment of the -u,dersigaed in
ch1edam H olland, ls distilled from barley of the
finest quality, and favored with essential extract
of tho berry Of the italian juuips of uncqualled pu.
rity. BY process unknown in the preparation of !
any other liquor it s 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 lmitat1ohs ssShe schiedam Aro-
matic sehnapps in those naarkAts apA travellers,
who enc In the habit of using 1t anate to the
baneS1l influence Of unwholesome river water tes4s
tify that cheap gin. put ur, in schiedan bottles
Frequently palmed off rB9n the unNary The
agents OF the undersigned ,hnve been ceqnested to
institute inquiries the subject t forward to-
HIM the names OF such parties they. may asc>r-
tep to be engaged in the atrocious system Of decep-
ton. In conclusion the undersigned would say that
ha has PROD uced from npder the hands Of the most
distinguished men of laience in Amasca proofs IN
apswezabe Of the purity and raa0icinal exca !
ilence Of the Schiedsm Aromatic schnapps that |
.he has expended many thousand dollars in sur |
rounding 1t with guaEpntees and safeguards which
he designed should protect the public and hiueself
against fraudulent limitations; that he has shown 1t
to be the only qu0r in the world that can he unl,
formly depended upon as unadulterated that he has
challenged investigation, analysis. comparison and
experiment in HU Its forms and from every ordeal
the preparation which bears hieDame seal snd trade
mark has corae or triumphant He, therefore, feels
it duty he eYes to his teupwcitisens generally. to
the medical. profession and the slck to denounce
and expose the charatans who counter&ait these evil
dencies Of 4tdenty. and h calls upon the press and
The public to aid him in Ais efforts remedy so great
evil, ..
The. following lettaae and certificates FROM the
leading physicians and che nists of this city will
prcYe to the reader that all goods sold by the under
signed are all that they are repre ented to be.
UDOLPHO WOKFE.
11eel bound to say, that regard your schnapps
as being In every respect pre-sninently pure, and
the epurest possible article Of Holland Gin hereto.
tore unohtalna0le; and such may be eafely prt
DAVID L. MOTT. NJ. D..
Pharmaceutical Chemist, New York
20 PINE-srRRET, NEW YoRK,
November II. 1867. II
UDoLpHo WOLFE, Esq, Present:
Dear Sir have made chemical OK animation Of
sample of your Schledam schnapps, with the in
tent Of determining any foreign injurious sub
stance had been added to the simple distilled spirits
The examination has resulted IN the conclusion
that the sample contained no poisonous or harmful
admixture. have ueen unable to discover any
trace OF the deleterious substances witch enl,
ployed In the adulteration Of liquors would not
hesitate to myself or to reoornme nd to Others
for medicinal purposes. the achiedam sohnapps as
ON excellent and unobjectionable variety OF gin.
Very respectfully yours,
Eisneq,l 4 CHAs. A. sRELY, Chemist.
NEW YoRK, No. 50 CEDAR-srREEr