The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-03-03
Sebieaam Seanapps.

s., OFFICE OF UDoLpH0V Str&l<
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NEW YonK. Nqks%xw 5A&e
10 tho PoopIo OF tho SosSfAaffAStates.
WHEN THE PURE NAEs4RSfORA ATIvE.
now SO widely kneSA- "a WQSSFE's SCHIEDAM
sCHNAPPS. was in reduced into tho world under
the endorsement Of four thousand leading members
OF the medical profession twenty years ago, its
proprietor was well t.at it could not wholly
escape the penalty attached to oil new and useful
Preparations. He, therefore, endeavored to invest Ii
with strongest possible safesuard against counter
feiters and to render all attempts to pirate it di
cult and dangerOus. It was submitted to dtsin-
gMshed chemists for apslysis. and pronounced by
them the purest spirit manufactured. It's puri-
ty and properties having oeen thus rtaned,
pies OF the article were forwarded to ten thousand
physicians including all the leading practitioners
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 eminent medical men ia
the Union promptly responded. Their opinions OF
the article wore &panlmously favorable. Such
preparation thSySeaid. had long been wanted by
tho profession, as no reliance could be placed the
ordinary hcucrs Of commerce, Cd; OF which wero
moro less adu,terated and therefore unit for
medical purposes The peculiar ex elence and
strength Of the Oh Of jumper. which formed Of
the principal ingredients Of the schnapps together
with an unalloyed character Of the alcoholic ele-
mont. give It, in tho estimation Of the faculty,
marked supero-.ty over every other dHusive sti
liant as diuretc. tcnic and restorative.
These satisfactory credentials trona professional
men Of the highest rank were published in con;
densed for1n and enclosed with each bottle of the
sohnapps as one of the guarantees Of it's genuine.
ness. Other precautions against fraud were also
a1N ptaA.
label was copyrighted, ac sintte Of tho propre,ors
autograph signature was attached to each label and
cover, his name aud that Of the preparation were en-
bossed On the bottles, and the eorp 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 echiedam Aromatic
schnappa, IN 1851; and tho 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 unacquained
with the ring character of the pirates whee proy
upon the reputation OF ofhonorable merchants by vend-
ing deeter ous trash under their naDe that the
tections 80 carefully thrown around these schnapps
would have precuded the introductlons and sale OF
counterfeits. They seem, however. only to have
stimula ed the rapaoty Of ,mpostors. The trade
mark OF tn proprietor has been stolen; the lndorse
ment which his Schedam Aromatic Schnapps alone
received from the medical profession has been
claimed by mendaeious humbugs; his lsbcls and
bottles have been initiated. his advertisements para
phrased, his circulars copied. and than all,
retailers after disposng of the genuine
conteots Of hs bottles, have filed them up with
common gin, the most dele5erious Of all liquors aud
thus maao his name and br md a cover for poison.
he public the medical profession and tho sick,
for whom the schiedam Aromatic schnapps ,s pre-
scr'bed as remedy arc equally ntereste with the
proprietor in the deteclon and suppression Of these
neiarious PRACTICES. The genuine article, msnuiac-
tured at tie establishment of the under igued in
chiedam. II oiland, distilled from barley of the
finest quality and favored with an essential extract
OF the berry Of the italian juiper, uncquaed pu-
rity. BY process unknown in the preparation of
any other liquor. it freed every acrimonious
and corroavdelement.
Complaint9hs have been received from the leading
physicians al families in the southern states of
the sale Of cheap mutations of the schiedam Aro-
matte achnapps in those markets; and travellers,
who are in the habit OF using Antidoe to the
baneful influence of unwholesome river water. tes-
tif5 that cheap gin, put up in schiedam bottles is
frequently palned OF upon the unwary. Tho
ageuts OF the undersigned have been requested to
Institute on the bjeot, and to forward to
him the names OF such parties aa they may asc.r-
tain to be engaged in the atroious system Of derep
ton In combustion. the undersigned would say that
he has produced. from under the hands Of the most
distingui' hea uen Of science in America proofs un
answerable Of the purity and medicinal excel
lenoe of the Schiodam Aromatic Schnapps that
he has expended many thousand dollars in sur.
rounding it with guarantees and safeguards, which
he destaned should project the pubic and himself
against fraudulent imitations thai he has shown It
to % the only liquor in the world that can be UNI.
formly depended upon uuadulterated that he has.
challenged investigation. analysis. comparison and
experiment IN all its forms; and from every ordeal
the preparation viii bears his nae seal and trade
mark. has come or triumphant. He, therefore, feels
it duty he to hs telow-cits ms generally, to
the medical profession and tho sick, to denounce
and expose ha charlatans who counterfait these eyi
denciee OF identity. and he calls upon the press and
the rubo to aid him In his efforts to remedy 10 great
an evil. & .
The following letters aud certificates from the
Leading physssians and che nisss of this city will
prove to the reader that all goods sod y the under
signed are ell that they are repre- ented to be.
80 UDOLPHO WOLFE.
feel bound to say, that regard your Sohna ,ps
as beng in every respect pre-sminently pure and
deserving OF medical patronage At all events is ia
the purest possible article OF Holland Gin, hereto
tore unoDtainaOle. and us such may be safely pr,
scribed BY physicians.
DAVID L. MOTT. NJ. D.,
Pharmaceutical Chemist, New York
Is FtNE-sTREET. NEW YoRK,l
November 81, 1867.
UDoLpH0 WOLFE, Esq, Present:
Dear Str-I have male chemical examination of
camps u you schiudam sonnapps. with tie in-
lent ~ detcrm ming IT any foreign luxurious sur-
stance had been added to tt. slmpla distilled sprits
The examination has resulted III the conoiusion
that the aAmple contained no pclsono.is h.rmful
admlxture. have teen unable to discover any
u7e
ployed la the aduteraton OF liquors. u would NOT
hesttate to use myself or to recomm. nd to others