The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-01-13
SebieSant Sfbnapps.

SebisSam Sfbuapps.
s,,. 49,, oFfIoE OF UDoLpHo WOLFE.
Sote Impo' ter Of Me SchiedGm Aromatic Schnapps
No az Beaver-street.
NEW YORK, November 8, 1868
To the People OF the Eoutherr, Stmtcs,
WHEN THEIGRE MEDICJNSL L RESTORATIVE
now SO widely known as WOLFE's sCHIEDAM
sCaNAPPS, was Introduced 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 it could not wholly
escape tho penalty attached to all new and useful
preparations. He, therefore, endeayored to invest IL
with strongest possible safeguard against counter
feters, and to render all attempts to pirate 1t dif.
cult and dangerous. 1t submitted to distin.
guIshed chemists for analysis, and pronounced by
them the purest spirit ever manufactured Its puri-
y and properties having been thus ascertained sam
pies Of the article forwarded to ten thousand
physicians including all the leading practitioners in
the United States, for purposes of experiment A
circular, requesting trial of Ihe preparation and
report Of the result accompanied each specimen
Four Thousand OF the NEST eminent medical men in
the Union promptly responded. Their opinions of
the article were unanimously favorable Sucb q
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 or less adulterated, and therefore unfit for
medical purposes. The peculiar excellence and
strength Of the OF Of Juniper which formed one of
the principal ingredients of the schnap2s together
with an unalloyed character of the alcoholic ole.
ment, give 1t. in the estimation Of the faculty. a
marked superiority every other dnusive stimu.
! liant rs diureic, 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 ohta4nea che artiUle the
label copyrighted, jac sine Of the proprietors
autograph signature attached to each label and
cover, his name and that Of the preparation were en-
bossed the bottles. 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.
1t might be supposed by persons unacquain'ed
with the daring character of tho pirates who prey
upon the reputation ofhonorabe merchants by vend-
ing deeterous trash under their name that the pro-
tections Carefully thrown around these sohnapps
would have precuded the introductions and sale of
counterfeits They seem, however, only to have
stimulated 4he rapacity of mpostors. The trade
mark OF the proprietor has been stolen; the ndorse
ment which his sohiedam 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.
dishonorabe retailers. after dsposng of the genuine
contents Of his bottles, have filed them up with
common GIN, the most deeterious Of all liquors. aud
thus mada@ts name and br md cover for poison.
Ihe public, the medical profession and the SICK
for when the schiedam Aromatic schnapps s pre-
scr1bed as remedy, are equally interested with the
propretorn the detection and suppression of these
hefarous practices. The genuine article, manufsc-
tured Mt the establishment of the undersigned In
Sohiedam, Holland. is distilled from barley Of the
finest quality. and favored with an essential extract
OF the Derry OF the italian juriper Of uneaualled pu.
rity. BY process unknown In the preparation Of
any other liquor it is freed from every acrimonious
and corrosive element.
Complaints h3Be been received from the leading
physicians and families in the Southern States Of
the sale Of cheap limitations Of the Schiedana Aro-
matte schnapps in those markets; and travellers,
who are In the habit of using 1t Andote to the
baneful infuend0 Of unwholeseme river water tes-
tify that cheap gi put up in schiedam bottles, is
frequentN palmed of upon the unwary. TIE
agents Of the undersigned have been requested to
institute inquiries on the subject and to forward to
him the names Of such parties as they may asc.r-
tain TO be engaged in the atrocious system OF decep
ton. In conclusion tho undersigned would saw that
no has produced, from under tho hands Of the most
distinguished men OF science in America proofs un
answerable of the purity and medicinal excel.
lence Of the schiedam Aromatic schnapps that
he has expended many thousand dollars In sur.
roundt@g It With guarantees and safeguards, which
he Designed should protect the public and himself
against fraudulent imitatons; that ho has shown Il
to be the only liquor In the world that can be uni
formly depended upon as unadulterated that he has
challenged Investigation, analysis, comparison and
experiment in all Its forms; ana from every ordeal
the preparation which bears his panae seal and trade
mark, has como of triumphant He therefore feela
1t duty he owes to lis felow-citixens generally "a
he medical profession and the sick, to denounce
and expose tho charlatans who counterfeit these evil
deacies Of identity, and he calls upon the press ana
the pubic to aid him in his efforts TO remedy 80 great
an evil.
The following letters and certificates from the
leading physicians and chemists of this city win
provo TO tho reader that all goods sold by the under
signe tare all that they are repre- ented to be.
" UDOLPHO WOLFE.
Ifeel bound to say, that regard your Selma on.
es being In every respect pre-enainently pure and
the pntest possible artlcle Of Holland Gin hereto
tore unobtalnaols and as such may be safely pre-
scribed by physieians.
DAVID L. MOTT, MD
Pharmaceutical Chemist, New York
26 PINE-sTRERT, NEW YoRK,,
November a. 1857.
UDoLPHo WOLFE, Eeq., Present:
Dear SSr--l have made chemical examination of
sample Of your schledam schnapps, with the In
tent of detern ming any foreign or Injurious sub.
stance bad been added to tht simple distilled spirits
The examination has resulted IN the Conclusion
that the sample contained no poisonous or harmful
adMtxture. I have been unable to discover anv
trace OF the deleterious substances wich ara en.
ployed In the adulteration Of liquors. I would not
hssitate to use myself or to recomme nd to others
Tor medicinal purposes, tho Schiedam Hchnappa az
an excellent and unobieetionable variety of gin
Very respectfully youra.
Nfgned,) SHAS. "A. BEELY, Chemist.
NEW York. No. 80 oRDAn-srRHET.
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