Grand Rapids morning telegram., 1885-07-10

Two Women Who, Years ago.
Were Famous
soass RsesltseGions "a fSaAis eisnan sd
Victoria " ooakzft--fbs foraa<r
Cool sad G4lessi @tiasr Bal ths
Latter sDsinely Erratte.


fsuuis g.. Cl4n a- ~ - ~iM have 70
tbiak tsies before recalling sue person -
" a0m the name belongs, and Yet it .
on.y eigat years siuce che and her
sister. Mrs. WOodbuA, we're tne most
astonishing ~oinen IA Ameriea Some
~ thsr aadaci0us exploits vii
come - your mind as you re-
esil the ns~spaper accounts Or their ca
resF. OBe episode therein ne tofnat Ion
u the stock brokerage nrm u " oodhuh
s. CIanin-has been revived by law suit
Ior the possess On Of paiHting which she
presented ~ Commodore y Vanderbilt, AMI
which was 70 urned u her upon his death.
The belief was that the COmmodors's
money set the sisters up in their show OF
business, and that bis Incentive was love
OF Tennls, VINO " at that time plump,
fearless and rather pretty womsn Of
tsasnty-nve The picture IN quos tion
has been correctly described a. worth
=, OOO. The circumstance was that
tas aged millionaire expressed ad-
miration for it, aud next day
Tennle had lt sent 70 his house with
her compliments. He gave place 10 It
on the ali or bis art gallery, bat his rel
4tlves, after bis demise, Lost no time Ia re-
storing il % the fair donor There is an
other pictorial menentO which had never
seen or heard OF until 1 chanced 10 see n,
the other day, IN the premises which ths
sist r. occupied iu Broad street. IL was a
neatly framed pho ograph OF Ccmm 'dOre
Vanderbilt, with his autograph at tue bot
tom. and the tradition 5 that this was
given 70 Tennie as a token OF thanks FOR
the painting. The present user OF the
room lets it remain in place as "a curiosity.
The brains o Woodruff and Ciafiin can
bs seen in Broad way lany day. They are
carried in heat ant qus ani philo-
sopherish AS could be found IN e.
weeks search. Their owner is Stephen
I Pearl Andrews, lawyer by profes
sion lie is too able a theorisr TO
amount % much practically, and so has
% remain comparatively poor Ii was he
" % wrote the speeches for WOods ali 10
/ deliver and the sOcialis ic articles for her
/ 10 publish in her journal He Is really
/ most profound thinker and fine speaker,
I but his topics ars such tnat his appreci-
alive audiences are mighty small, and the
remun ration nothing. The Andrews
who used to play Dundreary for Laura
/ Keene, after SO hern became famous
enou IA 10 go il alone, was a son Of this
lnappreciated sage. Young Andrews
tired of acting, became lawyer, and for
two Presidential campaigns has been
secretary at the Democratic National
aeaiq uartsrs.
Men who knew all that was knOwab e
about these adventurous SIS ters tell me
that Mrs. Woodruff was genuinely errat-
&c. The contrary was true of Tenni e, who
aimed solely at the making OF fortune in
zool hard cash, and who realized that an
end was bound to come TO their vogue.
The " all street venture was her scheme.
Having captured the fancy o. CommodOrs
Vanderbilt, she calculated that he mi yht
be made TO yield bagful Of money. tie
was not the man To be fooled. and nobody
/ suppUses that she tried or hoped. to ma ke
any cons derable raid upon his own treas
/ ury; but she did expect to operate sue
,essfuIly IN speculation on points which
/ ne could give L her, and at the
same time 10 gain a profit 10y buy
n and s.ling stocks for others
who, knowing her facilities for getting
/ <u0wl edge from tho great MILL naire,
would do business in her office. In both
hese respects she was disappointed, hut
the plan at least had reasonableness The
IDEAS Of Mrs. woodruff however, were
she wildss- yagaries. To her the ridic-
llous eulogies which Theodore .rilton
wrote OF her in the famous biography
were plain statements OF facts. She firm
ly believed that she was a Joan OF Arc to
lead her sex to victory. Her campaign
Tor the Presid sncy was no joke in her es =
/ imati0n. There was no affectation in her
madness Even when her race in this
country was completely run she went to
England c)nfient that sle would yet lri-
/ umph.