The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-02-18
Sfbiebam Sfbnapps.
OFFICE OF UDOLPHO WOLFE,
S0@ ImPo' f'r ofthe Scitiedum A1onldtic SctnappS
u. NO 22 HenvCr-SG"cet. {
New YORK, November s. 1868

OFtICE OF UDOLPHO WOLFE
So'e In'po' ''r ofMe Sctiedam Aromatic SchnappS
d. NO 80 Henvcr-Sa'cct.
New YORK, November 3. 1868
To tShc People OF tho Southern states:
WHEN THE PURE MEDICiNA AL RESTOR aTIVF
now so widely known WOLFE'S SCHIEDAM
SCaNAPPS, was Introduced into the world under
tie 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 new and usetu
preparations. He therefore, endeavored invest il
with strongest possible safeg uard against counter
teiters and to render Ell attempts to pirate it diff
| cult and dangerous. II was submitted to dustin.
| gu'shed chemists for analysis, and pronounced by
them the purest spirit manufactured Its puri-
y and properties having oeen thus ascerained sam
pies OF the article forwarded to ten thousand
physicians Including ali the 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 opinions OF
| the article were unanimously favorable. Such a
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, end therefore unfit for
| medical purposes, The peculiar excellence and
strength Of the OF 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 superio.ty over every other diffusve stnu-
| liant as 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 one Of the guarantees of it's genuine.
| ness. Other precautions against fraud were also
oHN rto1.
label was copyrighted, fac s,ne of the prop1ieors
autograph signaturewas attached to each label and
cover, his name aud that of the preparation were
bossed on the bottles and the were 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 unacquain,ed
with the daring character OF tho pirates who prey
upon the reputation othonorable merchants by vend-
ing deeterous trash under their name that the pro-
tections so carefully thrown around these Schnapps
would have precuded the introduc ious and sale of
counterteits. They .seem however, only to have
stimulated the rapacity of impostors. The trade
mark OF the proprietor has been stolen the ndorse-
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 than all,
dishonorable retailers after sposing of the gonuno
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.
The public, the medical profession and the sick,
for whom the schiedam Aromatic schnapps is pre-
1,odo
proprietor in the detection and suppression of these
nefarious practices. The genuine article, manuiac-
tured at tie establishment of the undersigned in
Schedam, Holland, distilled from barley Of The
finest quality and favored with an essential extract
OF the berry Of the Italian juuipe OF unoqualed pu-
rity By process unknown in the preparation of
any other liquor 1t is freed from every acrimonious
und corrosive element.
Complaints have been received from the leading
physicians and families in the southern States of
the sale of cheap limitations Of the Schedam Aro-
matte Schnapps in thbse markets; and travellers,
who in the habit OF using antidote to the
baneful influence of lnwholesome rivcr water tes-
| tify that cheap gin, put up In schicdam bottles is
frequently p9.almed&a upon the unwary. The
agents Of the undersigned have been requested to
institute inquiries the bject ana to forward to
him the names OF such parties as they may asc,r-
tain to be engaged in the atrocious system decep
hoc. In conclusion the undersigned would say that
he has pro6uce from under the hands of the most
distngu1s he'd 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 it with guarantees and safeguards, which
he designed should pro ect the public and himself
against fraudulent limitations; that ie has shown it
to be the only liquor the world that can be UNI
formIy depended upon unadulterated; that he has
challenged investigation. analysis, comparison and
experiment in all its forms; and from every ordeal
the preparation whi bears his name seal trade
mark, has come of triumphant. He, therefore, feels
1t duty he to llls telow-citiz MS generally to
the medical profession and the sick, to denounce
and expose the charlatans who counterfeit these
denotes OF identity. and he calls upon the press and
the ubc to aid him in hs efforts to remedy so great
an evil.
The following letters and certificates from the
lending physicians and che INST Of this city will
prove to the reader that all goods sold y the under
signe are oil that they are repre- ented to be.
UDOLPHO WOLFE.
Ifeel bound to say, that regard your Selma DDS
as beng In every respect pre-sminenty pure, and
deserving OF medical patronage at all events it is
the purest possible article of Holland Gin. hereto
tore unoDtalnable. and as such may be safely pr,
scribed by physicians.
,2 DAVID L. MOTT, NJ d.,
Pharmaceutical Chemist, New YORK
20 PINE-srRHEr, NEW YORK,
November e. 1867.
UDoLPHo WoLFE, Esq, Present:
Dear Sir-I have made chemical examination of
sample of your. Schledam Schnapps, with the in
tent of Geterm ming II any foreign injurious sub
stance lad been added to tn, simple disiied spirits
Ihe examination has resulted III the conclusion
that the sample contained no poisonous or harmful
admixlure. have seon unable to discover any
trace OF the deleterious substances wich en.
ploy ed in the adulteraton Of liquors. n would not
hesitate to use myself or to rec0mm nd to otherss
tor medicinal purposes, THE SGhledain, Schnapps as
an excellent ana unoDjectionable variety OF gin.
Very respectfully yours,
(sfgned;l CHAa. a. SEELY, Chemist.