The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-02-03
Srbifoam Sebnapps.

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OFFICE OF UDOLPHO WOLFE.
Sole Intpo' ter Of the Schieaam aromatic Schnapps,
No. % Beaver.stfcet.
NEW YORK, November g. 1868.
To the People OF the Southern states.
WHEN THE PURE MEDICINAL RESTORATIVE,
now 30 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 twenty years ago, its
proprietor well aware Mlat 1t could not wholly
escape the penalty attached to ell new and usefu,
preparations. He, therefore, endeavorcd to invest il
with strongest possible safeguard against counter
fciters, and to render all attempts to pirate diff
cult and dangerous. 1t was submitted to dtstin-
| guished chemists for analysis, and pronounced by
them the pures spirit manufactured Its puri-
ty and properties having been thus ascertaincd, sam
pies of the article forwarded to ten thousand
physicians 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 opiuions OF
| the article were unanimously favorable. Such
| preparation, they said, had long been wanted by
the profession as reliance could be placed on the
| ordinary liquors of commerce. all of which were
more less adulterated, and therefore unfit for
medical purposes. The peculiar excellence and
strength Of the oil of juniper, which formed one of
the principal ingredients Of tho Schnapps, together
with an unalloyed character Of the alcoholic ele-
ment, give 1t. in the estimation Of the faculty,
marked superiority every other difusive timu
liant as diureic, tonic and restorative.
| These satisfactory credentials from professional
men of the highest rank we're published in o 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
adopted; patent obtained for the article the
label was copyrighted, Jao sire OF the proprieor's
autograph signature attached to each label and
cover, his aud that Of the preparation were
bossed the bottles and the corks sealed with
his private seal. No article had ever been sold in
| this country under tho 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
| fQr the Southern District of New York during that
| lit might be supposed by persons unacquainted
xth the during character of the pirates who prey
UPON the reputation ofhonorable merchants by vend
ing deleterous trash under their name, that the pro-
tectons 80 carefully thrown around these Schnapps
would have precluded the introductons and sale Of
| cpunterfeits They seem. however only to have
| STIMULATED the rapacity of impostors. The trade
mark of the proprietor has been stolen the indorse-
ment which his Schiedam Aromatic Schnapps alone
received from the medical profession has been
claimed by mendacious humbugs; his labels and
bottles have been initiated, his advertisements para
phrased his circulars copied, and worse than all,
dishonorable retailers, after disposng of the genuine
contents of his bottles, have filed them up with
common gin, the most deeterious of all liquors, aud
thus made his name and br and cover for poison.
The public, the medical profession and the sick.
for tho ,ia1o fic
socibed remedy, equally interestei with the
proprietor in she detection and suppression Of these
na$hrious practices. Tho genuine article manutac-
tured at the establishment of the undersigned in
schiedam, Holland ls distilled from barley of the
finest quality and favored with essential extract
Of the berry Of the italian uupe~ Of uncqualed pu-
rity. 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-
mPtic Schnapps in those markets; and travellers,
who In the habit OF using antidote to the
bAdeful influence of unwholesome river water. tes-
tiy that cheap gin, put UP in Schiedam bottles Is
s&eanAntlR palmed off ,,pon the lnwary. Tho,
agents Of tho undersigned have been requested to
institute inquiries the subject ana to forward to
him the names of such parties as they may asc,r-
tain to be engaged in the atroious system Of decep
ton. In conclusion the undersigned would say that
he has prod 5uced, from under the hands of the most
distinguished men OF science In America, proofs un
answerable Of the purity and medicinal excel
lence of the Schieda1n 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 mitations; that he has shown it
to be the only liquor in the world that be uni
formly depended upon rs unaduteratcd; that he has
challenged investigation. analysis, comparison and
experiment in all it's forms and from every ordeal
the preparation which bears hts name seal and trade
mark, has come OFF triumphant. He, therefore, feels
1t duty he owes to llis telowcitizens 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 to remedy SO great
an evil.
The following letters and certificates from the
leading physicians and che mist of this city will
prove to the reader that all goods sold by under
signed are all that they are repro ented to be.
UDOLPHO WOLFE.
Ifeel bound to say, that regard your schnapps
az beng In every respect pre-eminently pure, and
deserving OF medical patronage. At all events 1t is
| the purestNossible article of Holland Gin hereto
tore unobtainaole. and as such may be safely pre-
DAVID l.. MOTT. NJ. o.,
Pharmaceutical Chemist, New York.
20 p1NE-sTnEEr, NEW YORK;
November 21, 1867. I &
UDoLpHo WoLrE, Esq. Present:
Dear Siy-I have made chemical examination of
sample Of your Schiedam schnapps with the in
tent Of determining II any foreign injurious sub.
stance had been added to the simple disded spirits
The examination has resulted In tho conclusion
that the sample contained no poisonous harmful
admixture ! have peon unable to discover any