The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-01-16
Sfbieoam Sfbnapps.

OFF ICE OF UDOLpHO WOLFE, !
Sole Importer fMe Schtedam Aromatic Schnapps, |
No 22 Beaver-strect.
NEW YORK November Y 1853


Sole Importer Of the Schiedam aromatic Schnapps
NO SS Beaver-streCt.
NEW York, November 3. 1868.
TO the People Of the Southern states,
WHEN THE PURE MEDICINAL RESTORATIVE,
now so widely known as WOLFE'S SCHIEDAM
SCHNAPPS, was in reduced. into the world under
the endorsement Of four thousand leading members
of the medical profession some twenty years ago. its
proprietor was woll 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 safeguard against counter
feiters and to render all attempts to pirate it dn
cult and dangerous. 1t was submitted to distin-
gulshed chemists for analysis, and pronounced by
them the purest spirit ever manufactured. It's puri-
ty and properties having been thus rtaned sam
pies of the article forwarded to ten thousand
physicians including all the leading practitioners in
tue United States. for purposes Of experiment. A
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, as no reliance could be placed the
ordinary liquors Of commerce, all Of which were
more or less adulterated, and therefore unit for
medical purposes. The peculiar excellence and
strength OF the Of of juniper. which formed Of
the principal ingredients of the Schnapps together
with unaIioyed character of the alcoholic ele-
ment. give 1t, in the estimation OF the faculty, a
marked superiority every other dfusive sti imu-
liant as a diureic, 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 one of the guarantees Of it's genuine.
ness. Other precautions against fraud were also
adO ted ratan vae Ol,f
label was copyrighted, ac sime of the proprietors
autograph signature attached to each label and
cover, his name aud that of the preparation
bossed the bottles. and the corks sealed with
his private seal. No article had 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 United States District Court
for the Southern District of New York during that
year.
1T might be supposed by persons unacquain'ed
with tho dlring character of the pirates who prey
upon the reputation ofhonorable merchants by vend-
ing deeter GUS trash under their name that the pro-
tectons carefully yxhrown around these schnapps
would have precuded 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 ndorse-
ment which his Schiedam Aromatic Schnapps alone
received from the medical profession has been
claimed by mcndacious humbugs; his labels and
bottles have been initiated, his advertisements para
phrased, his circulars copied, and than all,
dishonorable retailers after disposing of the genuine
contents of his bottles, have filed them up with
common gin, the most deleterious of all liquors, and
thus made his name and brlnd cover for poison.
Ihe public the medical profession and the sick
for whom the schiedam Aromatic schnapps is pre-
scribed as remedy are equally interested with the
proprietor In the detection and suppression of these
netarious practices. The genuine article, manuac-
tured at the establishment of the undersigned in
schiedam, Holland, distilled from barley of the
finest quality, aud favored with essential extract
of the berry OF the Italian junipe of unequaled pu
rity. By process unknown in the preparation Of |
any other liquor Is freed from every acrimonious
and corrosive element.
Complaints have been received from the leading |
families In the Southern States of |
che sab ofSheap limitations Of tho Schiedam Aro
matte Schnapps in those markets; and travellers |
who are In tho habit of using 1t anote to the
baneful influence Of unwholesome river water tes
tfS that cheap gin, put up in Schiedam bottles is
frequently palmed of upon the unwary. The |
agents Of the undersigned have been requested to
institute inqurieson the subject and to forward to
him the names of such parties they may ascer-
tain to be engaged in the atrocious system 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
answerable 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 imitatons that lie has shown Il
to be the only liquor in the world that be uni
formly depended upon unadulterated; that he has
challenged investigation, analysis, comparison and
experiment in all Its forms; and from every ordeal
the preparation which bears his name seal and trade
mark. has off triumphant He, therefore, feels
1t duty he to Ills felow-citzens generally to
he medical profession and the slok, to denounce
and expose the charlatans who counterfeit these ev
denotes Of identity and he calls upon the press and
the rubc to aid him in his efforts to remedy so great
an evil. ""
The following letters aud certificates from the
leading physicians and che nists of this city will
prove to the reader that all goods sold by the under
signel are oil that they ore repre- ented to be.
UDOLPHO WOLFE.
feel bound TO say, that regard your Schnapps
being in every respect pre-eninently pure, and
deserving of medical patronage. at all events it is
the purcst possible article of Holland Gin hereto
lore unobtainable. and such may be safely pre-
DAVID L. MOTT, NJ. D.,
Pharmaceutical Chemist, New York.
% rrNE-sTnEEr, New YORK,
November 81, 1867. 4
UDoLpHo WOLFE, Esq, Present:
Dear Sir-I have made O. chemicsI examination of |
o sample of your Schedam 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 harmful |
admixthre. I have been unable to discover any
trace OF the deleterious substances wioh are en-
ployed in the adulteration of liquors I would not |
hesitate to myself or TO- recommend to others,
for medicinal purposes. the Schiedam Schnapps as
ooc md NM iact0