The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-01-28
Sfbieoallt Sfbnapps.
OFFICE OF UDOLPHo WOLFE, !
Sole Impo, ter of tie Schieddm aromatic Schndpps,
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No 22 Beavcr-strect.
NEW YORK, November 8. 1868.
To the People of tho Southern States:
WHEN THE PURE MEDICINAL RESTORATIVE,
now so widely. known as WOLFE'S SCHIEDAM
sCHNAPPs, was in'roduced into the world under
the endorsement of four thousand leading members
of the medical profession some twenty years ago. its
proprietor was well aware that it could not wholly
escape the penalty attached to all and useful
preparations He therefore, endeayored to invest il
with strongest possible safeguard against counter.
feiters and to render all attempts to pirate it diff
cult and dangerous. It was submitted to dstin.
guished chemists for analysis, and pronounced by
them the pures spirit ever manufactured Its purl-
ty and properties having been thus ascertained sam
Piles of the article forwarded to ten thousand
physicans including all the leading practitioners in
the 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
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 one of
the principal ingredients OF the scbnapps together
with an unalloyed character of the alcoholic ele-
ment, give It, In the estimation Of the faculty,
marked superiority every other difusive stinu-
liant as diurelic, 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 one of the guarantees Of Its genuine
ness. Other precautions against fraud were also
adopted; patent was obtained fer the article. the
label copyrighted a fac sile of the proprieors
autograph signature was attached to each label and
cover his name aud that Of the preparation were en-
Tossed on the botes and the corks we're 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 Schiednm 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 tbut
year.
1t might be supposed by persons una:quainied
with the lring character OF the pirates who prey
upon the reputation ofhonorabe merchants by vend-
ing deleterous trash under their name that the pro-
tections carefully thrown around these schnapps
would have precluded the introductions and sale OF
counterfcits. They eeem, however, only to have
stimulated the rapacity of impostors. The trade
mark OF til, proprietor has been stolen; the ndorse'
mcnt which his Schiedam Aromatic Schnapps alone
received from tho medical profession has been
claimed by mendacious hunbuSs; his labels and
bottles have been initiated, his advertisements para
phrascd, his circulars copied, and worse than oil,
dshonorable retailers after dsposing OF the genuine
contents of his bottles, have filed them up With
common Gin, the most deleerious of all liquors. aud
thus madc his name and brind cover for poison.
The public, the medical profession and the sick,
for whom the Schiedam Aromatic sctrapps is pre-
scribed as remedy arc equally intercste! with the
proprietor in the hcdctcchon and suppression of these
neIarious practices. The genuine article, manuac-
tured at tic establishment of the undersigned in
schcdam, Holland, is distilled from barley of the
finest quuIty and favored with an essential extract
of the berry Of tho Italian juripe, OF uncquaed pu-
rty. by process unknown III 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 Schicdam Aro-
matte Schnlpps in those markets; and travellers,
who arc in the habit OF using it as an andote to the
Laueful influence of unwholcsomc river wafer. tes
y that cheap gin, put up in Scbicda,n bottles, is
frequently palnled of upon the unwary. The
agents OF the undersigned have been requested to
institute inquiries on tho subject, ana to forward to
him the names of such parties ns they may asccr-
tain bc engaged in the ntrociuus system OF dcccp
tion In conclusion. the undersigned would say that
he has produced, from under the hands Of the most
distinguished men Of science in America proofs un
apswerabe Of the purity and medicinal excel
lcnce OF the Schiedam Aromatic Schnarps 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 he has shown 1t
10 be the only liquor the world that can be unl-
formy depended upon as unadulteratcd; that lie has
challenged investigation, analysis, comparison and
experiment in all its iorms and from every ordeal
the preparation viii h bears his pame scal and trade
mark, has como of triumphant. He, therefore, feels
il duty he owes to his icllow-citizens generally, to
the medical profession and the sick, to denounce
aud expose the charlaans who counterfeit these cvi
denotes OF identity md he calls upon the press and
the tublic 10 aid him in his efforts 10 remedy great
an evil.
Tho following letters aud certificates from tho
leading physicians and che nlst OF this city will
prove to the reader that all goods sold by the under
eicne are all that they arc repre- entcd to be.
UDOLPHO WOLFE.