The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-01-09
Sfbisbam Stbnapps.
OFFICE OF UDoLpHo WOLFE,
Sole Impo, ter O, The Schiedana aromatic Schndpps,
No &c Bcaver-strect.
NEW YORK NoYember s. 1863


NEW YORK, November 8. 1868.
To the People OF the Southern States:
WHEN THE PURE MEDICINAL RESTORATIVE.
now so widely known as WOLFE'S SCl1IEDAM
SCHNAPPS, was in reduced 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 1t could not wholly
escape the penalty attached to all new and useful
preparations. Hc therefore, endeavorcd 10 invest IL
with strongest possible safesu against counter
fctors, and to render all attempts to pirate it diff
cult and dangerous. It was submitted to dstin.
euished chemists for analysis, and pronounced by
them the purca spirit ever manufactured. Its puri
ty and properties having been thus ascertained sam
pies of the article were forwarded to ten thousand
physicians including all the leading practitioners in
the United Slatcs 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
preparation, they said, had long been wanted by
the profession no reliance could be placed on the
ordinary liquors of commerce. all of which were
more or less adulterated. and therefore unfit for
strength Of the oi of juniper, which formed one Of
the principal ingredients Of the schnapps together
with an uralloyed character Of the alcoholic ele-
ment give It, in the estimation Of the faculty,
marked superiority over every other diusive stnu-
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 sile of the proprieor's
autograph signature was attached to each label and
cover his name and that of the preparation were en-
Tossed on the bottles aud 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 Wolfes 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 unacquainied
with the dlring character of the pirates who prey
upon the reputation ofhonorable merchants by vend
ing deleterous trash under their name, that the pro-
tections 80 carefully thrown around these schnapns
would have precluded the introductons and gale OF
counterfeits. They eeenl, however, only to have
stimulated the rapacity of impostors. The trade
mark OF tn, proprietor has been stolen the ndorsc
ment which his scbiedam Aromatic schnapps clone
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,
dshonorable retailers after disposng Of the genuine
contents of his bottles, have filed them up with
common gin, tho most deleterious of oil liquors, aud
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-
scribed as q remedy, arc equally interested with the
proprietor in the detection and suppression Of these
neiarious practices. The genuine article, nanuiac-
tured at the establishment of the undersigned in
Schicdarn Holland, is distilled from barley Of the
finest quality and favored with essential extract
of the berry of the italian juniper of uncquaed pu-
rity. BY process unknown in the preparation Of
any other liquor it is freed from every acrimonious
and corrosive element.
Complaints havo been received from the leading
physicians and families In the Southern States Of
the sale of cheap limitations of the Schiedam Aro-
matte schnapps in those markets; and travellers,
who are in the habit Of using it andoe to the
baneful influence of unwholesome river water tes.
tify that cheap gin, put up in Schedam bottles, is
frequently palmed of upon the unwary. The
agents of tho undersigned have been requested to
institute inquiries the subject, and to forward to
him the names Of such parties as they may ascsr-
tain to be engaged in the arocious system Of deccp
ton. 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
answerable OF the purify and medicinal excel
lcnce Of the schiedam Aromatic Schnapps ; that
he has expended many thousand dollars in sur
rounding it with guarantees and safeguards, which
ho designed should protect the public and himself
against fraudulent limitations; that lie has shown 1t
10 be the only liquor in the world that can be uni
formly depended upon as unaduterated; that he hos
challenged investigation analysis, comparison and
experiment in Its forms; and from every ordeal
the preparation whit bears his name, seal and trade
mark has come of triumphant. He therefore. feels
it duty he owes to his teow-citizqns generally to
he medical profession and the sick, to denounce
and expose the charlatans who counterfeit these evi
denotes OF identity, and he calls upon the press and
the ublic to aid him in his efforts 10 remedy great
ON evil.
Tho following letters aud certificates from the
leading physicians and chemists of this city will
prove to the reader that all goods sold by the under
signr are all that they are repro ented TO be.
UDoLPHo WOLFE.