The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-02-17
Sfhirballl Sfbnapps.
OFtIoE OF UDoLpHo WOLFE. 1
Sole Impo, ,.r otihe SchieddM aromatic ScandppS,
No. :2a Bcnvcr-ssrect.
NEW YonK, November 3. 1868.

oFtIoE OF UDoLpHo WOLFE.
Sole Impo, !.r et tie Schiedda, aromatic Schnapps,
No. 2a Bcavcr-Ssrect.
NEW YonK, November 3. 1868.
To the People of tho Southern States:
WHEN THE PURE MEDICINAL RESTORATIVE,
now so widely known as woLFE'S SCHIEDAM
sc gNAPPS, was in PRODUCED into the world under
the endorsement of four thousand leading members
of the medical profession 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, endearorcd to invest II
with strongest possible safeeua against counter
fciters, and to render all attempts to pirate 1t di
cult and dangerous It was submitted to d'siin'
euIshed chemists for snalysis, and pronounced oy
them the pures spirit ever manufactured. Its puri-
ty and properties having oeen thus ascertained, SAM
pies of the article were forwarded to ten thousand
physicians including all 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 emiuent 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 no reliance could be placed on the
ordinary liquors of commerce. an of which were
more or less adulterated, and therefore unfit for
medical purposes. The peculiar excellence and
strength Of the oi of juniper, which formed one OF
the principal ingredients Of the schnapps. together
with an unalloyed character of the alcoholic ele-
ment, give 1t. in The estimation OF the faculty,
marked superlo-:ty every other difusiVe ftmu-
liant as diureiic, 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 for the article, the
label was copyrighted, fac smtc of the propre'ors
autograph signature wa attached TO each label and
cover ms aud thut of the preparation were en-
Tossed on the bctles and the corks 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.
It might be supposed by persons unacquainied
with the during character of the pirates who prey
upon the -c-.-.ltion othonorabe merchants by vend-
ing deleter:ous trash under their name that tho pro-
tectons so carefully thrown around these Schnapps
would have precuded the introductiols and sale OF
counterfeits. They seem, bowcver, only to have
stimulated the rapacity Of lmpostors. The trade
mark OF tn, proprietor has been stolen; the indorse-
mont which his Schedam Aromatic Schnapps alone
received from the medical profession has been
claimed by mendacious huwbugs; his labels and
bottles have been inflated his advertisements para
phrased, his circulars copied, and worse than all
dshonorabe retalers after dsposins of the genuine
couteuts of his bottles, have filed them up with
common gin, the most dee;erious Of all liquors. aud
thus made his name and brInd cover for poison.
Tho public, the medical profession and the SICK
for whom The schiedam Aromatic schnapps is pre-
scribed as remedy, are equally intercsci with the
proprietor In the detection and suppression Of these
neiarious Practices The genuine article, manuiac-
tured at the establishment OF the undersigned in
Schioda1n, Holland, Is distilled from barley of The
finest quality, and favored with essential extract
of tic berry of the Italian u.ipt of uncqualled pu-
rity. Be- process unknown in the preparation OF
any other liquor it ID freed from every acrimonious
aud corrosive element.
Complaints have been received from the leading
physicians and families In the southern States OF
the salo Of cheap limitations of the Schicdam Aro-
matte Schn1pps in those markets; and travellers
who are in the hnbt OF using 1t andote to the
lansf,l influence of rnwhnlcsnras- EzA- --~t-r, tcS
fy that cheap gin, put NJ Ia Schledam bottles. Is
frequently polned OF upon the unwary The
agents of the undersigned have been requested to
institute inquiries on the bjcc an1 to forward to
him the names of sucn parties as they may ascrr-
tain to be engaged in the atrocious system of decep
ton. III conclusion The undersigned would say that
he has produced, from under tho hands Of tho most
distinguished men of science in smerlca. proofs un
apswcrable Of the purity md medicinal excel.
lence OF the Schiedam Aromatic Schnal lps that
lie has expended many thousand dollars in sur.
rounding it with guarantees and safeguards, which
he designed should pre-, ect the public and himself
against fraudulent mtations; thn ne has shown 1t
to DO the only liquor tho world that can be uui-
formly depended upon unadulterated; that be has
challenged investigation. analysis, comparison and
experiment in allits forms; and from every ordeal
the preparation wh bears his pame seal aud trade
mark, has come on triumphant. He, therefore, fcels
il duty he owes TO Ins ellow-citz ms generally, to
the medical profession and the sick, to denounce
and expose the charlaIns who counterfeit these evil
denotes OF identity. and he calls upon the press and
the ublc to aid him in his efforts to remedy great
nm evil
The following letters aud certificates from the
leading physiclnns and che INST. of this city will
prove to the reader that oil goods sold 10y toe under
siqnel are all that they are repre- ented to be.
UDOLPHo WOLFE.