The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-01-26
Ssbieoam Scbuapps.
OFFICE OF UDOLPHO WOLFE,
Sole Impo, ter2 the Schicdam Aromatic iSchnapps,
No. 22 Ronver-street.
NEW YORK. November 4 lR6a

10 the People OF tho Southern Statess
WHEN THE PURE MEDICINAL RESTORATIVE,
now so widely known WOLFE'S SCHIEDAM
SCHNAPPS, .Yas introduced into the world under
the endorsement Of four thousand leading members
OF the medical profession some twenty years ago. it's
proprietor was well aware that It could not wholly
escape the penalty attached to all new and usefu,
preparations He, therefore, endeavored to invest II
with strongest possible safeguard against counter
feiters, and to render all attempts to pirate it diff
cult and dangerous. It was submitted to distin.
guished chemists for analysis, and pronounced by
them the purest spirit manufactured. Its puri-
ty and properties having been thus ascertaned SAM
pies of the article were forwarded to ten thousand
physicians. including all tho leading practitioners in
the 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 opiuions Of
the article were unanimously favorable. Such
preparation they said, had long been wanted by
the profession, as reliance could be placed the
ordinary liquors CT commerce. all Of which were
moro or less adulterated, and therefore unfit for
medical purposes. The peculiar excellence and
strength of the OF of juniper which formed one Of
the principal ingredients of the s,o;Inapps together
with an unalloyed character Of the alcoholic ele-
ment give 1t. in the estimation OF the faculty, q
liant as q diuretic, 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 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 simile of the proprieors
autograph signature was attached to each label and
cover, his name aud that Of the preparation were
bossed on the botles aud 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 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 unacquaned
with the dlring character of the pirates who prey
upon the reputation ofhonorable merchants by vend
Ing deleerous trash under their naIpa that the pro-
tections 30 carefully thrown around these Schnapps
would have precludcd 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 indorse
ment which his Schiedam Aromatic schnapps alone
received from the medical profession has been
claimed by mendacous humbugs; his labels and
bottles have been initiated. his advertisements para
dishonoTable retailers after disposing the genuine
contents Of his bottles, have filed them up with
common gin, the most deleerious of all liquors and
thus made his name and brlnd cover for poison.
The public the medical profession and the sick,
for whom the Schiedams Aromatic Schnapps is pre-
scr'bed as remedy, are equally inerestet with tho
proprietor in the detection and suppression Of these
neiarious practices. The genuine article, manutac-
tured at the establishment of the undersigned in
schiedam, Holland, is distilled from barley Of the
finest quality, and favored with essential extract
OF the berry of the Italian juuiper OF uncquaed pu
rtty. BY process unknown in 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; and travellers
who are IN the habit OF using it andote to the
o"hci"i innucnc1 OF unwholooome river water. tes-
tfy that cheap gin, put up in Schiedam bottles is
frequently palmed Off upon tho unwary The
agents of tho undersigned have been requested to
institute inquiries on the subject to forward to
MIN the names OF such parties they may ascer-
tam to be engaged in the atrocous system Of decep
tion In conclusion the undersigned would say that
he has produced, from under tho hands of the most
distinguished men Of science In America, proofs un
lence OF the Schiedam Aromatic Schnapps that
lie has expended many thousand dollars in sur.
rounding 1t with guarantees and safeguards, which
he designed should protect the public and himself
against fraudulent limitations; that lie has shown 1t
to be the only liquor In the world that can be uni
formly depended upon unadulterated; that he has
challenged Investigation. analysis, comparison and
experiment in all its torms and from every ordeal
the preparation whi bears his name seal and trade
mark has como of triumphant. He, therefore, feels
it duty he owes to his tellow-citizens generally, to
the medical profession and the sick, to denounce
and expose the charlatans who counterfeit these evil
denotes Of identity, and he calls upon the press and
the public to aid him in his efforts SO great
an evil. HDT
The following letters and certificates from the
leading physicians and che nists of this city will
prove to the reader that all goods sold by the under
signed are all tbat they repre- ented to be.
UDOLPHO WOLFE.
feel bound to say, that regard your Selma obs
as bong in every respect pre.eminently pure and
deserving OF medical patronage At ali events it is
the purest possible article Of Holland Gin hereto
fore unobtalnaole and as such may be safely pre-.
DAVID L. MOTT, MD.
Pharmaceutical Chemist New York.
26 PINE-sTREET. NEW YORK,
November n, 1867.
UDOLpHO WOLFE, Esq, Present: x "A
Dear Sir-I have made chemical examination of
sample Of your sch.edam sohnapps, with the in
tent of determining II any foreign Injurious sub
stance had been added to the simple distiled spirits
The examination has resulted In the conclusion
that the sample contained no poisonous or harmful
admtxture. have ue.n unable to discover any
trace OF the deleterious substances wich are em-
ployed I'm the adulteration Of Hquors I would not
hesitate to use myself to recommend to others,
for medicinal purposes, the sch,edam Schnapps as
an excellent and unobjecttonable variety of gin.
.Sil A III Very respectfully yours,
(signed,) eHAs. A. sRELY, Chemist.
New YORK, No. 63 CEDAR-srRHET. n,
Z November 26 1867
UDoLPHo WoIHR, Esq, Present: y Is ' 'AA
Dear Sir--1 have submitted to chemical ANALYSIS
two bottles OF ''achiedam Schnapps," which took
iron, fresh package In your honned warehouse and
And, a. before. that the ssirituous liquor is Tree