The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-04-13

OFFICE OF UDOLpUO WOLFE,
80 e Impo' tcr Of Tie Schicdam aromatic Schnapps,
No 20 Bcavcr-strGct.
NEW YORK, November 3. 1868.
TO tho People of tho Southern States:
WHEN THE PURE MEDICINAL. RESTORATIVE,
now so widely knonn as WOLFE'S SCHIEDAM
SCHNAPPS, was in reduced into the world under
the endorsement of four thousand load :ng members
of the medical profession twenty years ago. its
proprietor was we'll aware that it could not wholly
escape the penalty attached to all and useful
preparations. He, therefore, endcavored to invest II
with strongest possible safeguard against counter
letters, and to render all attempts to pirate 1t diff
cult and dangerous. It submitted to distin.
gushed chemists for analysis, and pronounced by
them the purest spirit ever manufactured. It's puri-
ty and properties having been thus rtained
pies of the article forwarded to ten thousand
physicians, including all the leading practitioners in
the United States, for purposes of experiment.
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 opipions of
the article were unanimously favorable. Such
preparation, they said, had long been wanted by
the profession, as reliance could be placed the
ordi :ary liquors Of commerce. all of which were
more OF less adulterated. and therefore unfit for
medical Surposes. The peculiar excellence and
strength Of the OF of juniper. which formed one of
the principal ingredients Of the Schnapps together
with an unalloyed character of the alcoholic ole
ment, give it. in the estimation Of the faculty, a
marked superiority over every other difusive stmu-
liant as diuretic tonic and restorative.
These satisfactory credentials from professional
men of the highest rank published in a con-
densed form, and enclosed with each bottle of the
Schnapps, rs one of the guarantees Of its genuine
ness. Other precautions against fraud also
adopted; patent obtained for the article, the
autograph signature attached to each label and
cover bis aud that of the preparation were em-
bossed on the bottles, and the corks sealed with
his private seal. No article had 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 unacquainted
with the daring character of the pirates who prey
upon the reputation honorable merchants by vend
ing deeterous trash under their name that the pro-
tections so carefully thrown around these Schnepps
would have precluded the introductons and sale Of
counterfeits. They seem, however, only to have
stimulated the rapacity of Importers. The trade
mark of tho proprietor has been stolen the indorse
mont which his Schiedam Aromatic schnapps alone
received from the medical profession has been
claimed by mendacious humbugs; his labels and
bottles have been inflated. his advertisements para
phrased, his circulars copied, and worse than all,
dshonorable retailers, after dsposing the genuine
contents of his bottles, have filed them up with
common gin, the most deeterious of all liquors. aud
thus made his name ana br,nd cover for poison.
The public the medical profession and the sick,
for whom the Schiedam Aromatic schnapps is pre-
scribed as remedy equally interested with the
proprietor in the detection suppression Of these
netarious practices. The genuine article, manuiac-
tured at the establishment Of the undersigned in
chiedam, II OH 3D. is distilled from barley of the
finest quality, and favored with an essential extract
Of the berry of the Italian juniper uncqualled pu
rty. By process unknown in the preparation of
any other liquor. 1t is freed from every acrimonious
and corrosive element.
Complaints have been received from the leading
physicians and families in tho Southern States of
the sale of cheap limitations of the Schiedam Aro-
matte Schnapps in those markets; and travellers,
who In the habit OF using it antdote to the
baneful influence Of unwholesome river water tes-
tify that cheap gin, put up in Schiedam bottles is
frequently palmed off upon the unwary The
agents of the undersigned have been requested to
institute inquiries On the subject and to forward to
him the names of such parties they may asccr-
tain to be engaged in the atroous system decep-
ton. In conclusion. the undersigned would say that
he has produced from under the hands Of the most
distinguis he'd Of science in America proofs un
answerabie of the purity and medicinal excel
ence OF the Schiedam Aromatic Schnapps that
he has expended many thousand dollars in sur.
rounding 1t with guarantees and safeguards, which
he desianed should protect the public and himself
against fraudulent limitations; that e has shown 1t
to be the only liquor in the world chat can be uni
formly depended upon as unadulterated that he has
challenged investigation analysis, comparison and
experiment in all its forms; and from every ordeal
the preparation which bears his name seal and trade
mark. has come of triumphant. He, therefore, feels
1t duty he owes to his felow-citizens generally to
the medical profession and the sick, to denounce
and expose the charatans who counterfeit these evil
denotes Of identity, and he calls upon the press and
the public to aid him in his efforts to remedy SO great
evil. ~
The following letters aud certificates from the
leading physicians and che nists of this city will
prove to the reader that all goods sold by the under
signe are oil that they repre ented to be.
UDOLPHO WOLFE.
Iieel bound to say. that regard your Selma Dps
as beng in every respect pre-eminently pure. and
the pnfest possible article Of Holland Gin hereto
tore unobtainable, and as such may be safely pr
DAVID L. MOTT, M. D.,
Pharmaceutical Chemist, New York
llg4-, a-. 20 p1NE-sTREEr. NEW YoRK,,
November Il. 1867.
UDoLpHo WOLFE. Esq, Present:
sample of your sch,sdsm sehnanps wt sha % OF
tent VI determ ming any foreign injurious sub.
stance bad been added to the simple distilled spirits
The examination has resulted IN the conclusion
that the sample contained no poisonous or harmful
| aduixture. have teen unable to discover any
trace et the deleterious substances wich en-
ployed in the adnlteration OF liquors I would not
hesitate to myself or to recomme nd to others,
for medioinai purposes, the schiedam schnapps as