The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1869-02-11
Office of UdOlphO Wolfe,
Sole Importer of Schiedana Aromatic
Schnapps.
No. %, Beaver-street,
NEW York, November 3, 1868.

Known as WOLr IA . OCl1lEDhN VI
SCHNAPPS, was introduced into the
world under the endorsement of four
thousand leading members Of the mcdl-
cal profession some twenty years ago,
its proprietor was we'll aware that 1t
could not wholly escape the peualty at
tached to all new and useful prepara-
tious. He, therefore, eudeavored to
invest it with strongest possible safe
guard against couuterteiters, and to
render all attempts to pirate 1t difficult
and dangerous. 1t vas submitted to
distinguished chemists Tor analysis, and
pronounced by them the purest spirit
ever manufactured. Its purity aud
properties having been thus ascertalned,
samples of the article were forwarded to
ten thousand physicians, including all
the leauing practltion'rs III the Uulted
States, for the purposes of experiment.
A circular, requesting trial Ut the
preparation and a report Of the result,
accompanied each specimen -Four
thousand Of the most eminent medical
men in the Union promptly cspo'ded. |.
Their opinions of the article were unau-
imously favorable. Such a preparation
they SAID, had long been wauted by the
profession, as no reliance could b.
placed on the ordinary liquors Of CON-
lnerce, all of which were more or less
adulterared, and therefore uuht tur
medical purposes. The peculiar excel
lence aud strength of the oil OF juniper,
which formed one of the principal in-
gredienls Of the Schnapps, together
with an unalloyed character ot the alco-
hol element, give it, in the estimation
of the faculty, a marked superiority
over every other dltfuslye stlmulant as
diurrtic, tonic and restorative.
These satisfactory credentials from
professional men of the highest rank,
wtrs published in condensed form
and enclosed with each botlle Of the
Schnapps; as oac Of its genuineness :
O,her precautions against fraud were
also adopted; patent was obtained for
the article, the label was copyrighted, a
tac simile Of the proprietprs autograph
signature was attached to each label aud
cover, lis name and that of the prepar.
alton were sealed with his private seal
No article had ever been sold in this
country under the name OF Schnapps
prior to the introduction cf Wolte's
Schicdam Aromatic Schnapps, in 1851;
and the label was deposited, as his trade
mark, in the United District Court for
the S0u.hcrn District OF Ncw -rorE -uu;
ring that year. t.. i..a
It might be supposed by persons un.
acquainted with the daring character of
the pirates who prey upon the reputa-
tion Of honorable merchants by vending
dcleterious trash under their nalLc, that
the projections SO carefully thrown a.
round these Schnnpps would have pre-.
cluded the introductions aud sale OF
countcrfcits They seem, however, only
to have stimulated the rapacity of im-
postors. The trade mark uf the pro-
prietor has been stolen; the indorse'
mcnt which his Schiedam Aromatic
Schnapps alone received from the hedl-
cal profession has been claimed by men
dacious humbugs his labels and bottles
have been Initiated, lis advertisements
paraphrased, his circulars copied, and
worse than all, dishonorable retailers,
after disposing Of the genuine contents
of his bottles, have filled them up with
common gin, the most deleterious of
all liquors, aud thus made his name and
brand cover for poison.
The public, the medical profession,
and the sick, for whom the Schicdam
Aromatic Schnapps is prescribed as a
remedy, are equally interested with the
proprietor in the detection and suppress
sion Of these nefarious practices. The
genuine article, manufactured at the
establishment Of the Undersigned in
Schiedam, Holland, is distilled from a
barley of the finest quality, and fla
yored with an essential extract of the
berry of the Italian juniper, of unequal
led purity. BY process unknown IN
the preparation Of any liquor, it is
freed from every acrimonious and cor
rosive clement. .-
Complaints have been received from
the leading physicians and families in
Southern States of the sale of cheap
limitations of the Schiedam Aromatic
Schnapps In those markets; and trav-
ellers who are in the habit Of using 1t as
an antidote to the tanetul influence OF
uuwholesome river water, testify that
cheap gin, put up in Schnapp bottles,
is frequently palmed off upon the un,
wary. The agents Of the undersigned
have been requested to institute lnqul-
ries on the subject, and to forward to
him the names Of such parties as they
may ascertain to be engaged in the
atrociou< system of deception: In con-
rlusiun, the undersigned would say that
he has produced, from under the hands