The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-02-09
IKE A FRENCH ROMANCE
CAREER OF TENIE c. CLAFLlN,
L = NOW LADY COOK.

E orican Country Girl Who Has
q A,,rod as q Spiritualistic Medium,
Val street Plunger, a Female
e,,fragist, Lecturer, Exponent OF
NJ zee Love" and Now Rules the
-..,as and Estates OF an English
HI viscount.
81 From the Netc YorI; World.
III -.,5ov a week ago, there stepped from
81 -orc-Dlank of the North German steam
Ems a woman whose costume bore the
unsuitable impress of foreign houses and
u, sasa striking, nervously lined face easily
,a,rsved a personality above the average
M = her sex. Stepping into carriage and
M wing her wraps about her she ordered
Ri yo- driver to take her post haste across the
.-or 70 Brooklyn. The coachman's fare
-r.s none other than Lady Francis Cook,
,-;scorntess of Monsterrat, or stripped of
E .,o clamor Of her titles, none other than
A. one famous Tennie c. ClGhin. The
81 savt davis newspapers hardly made any an
I'll .,,ncoment of her arrival, and yet dozen
-,ovs or so ago, at her departure for Eng
z ia from Am arica, and, for many more
s "a a dozen years before, her goings out
z - ber c1nings in, were one of the staple
81 aries Of the paragraphers, while Tennie G..
M ClaAin was a name ofteneSt upon mems
I i;ns Since that time she has lived more or
lass quietly in and about London, and
I +bonpb there is no one who has not heard
81 If her aud her adventurous career, many OF
|# .ba facts which have made it such notable
# ono even in Am erica, whore a life has to
III bo marked far out of the common run indeed
N be regarded as interesting, have slipped
from most peoples memory.
When. in 1876. Miss Clafiin and her Sis
for Victoria Woodruff, emigrated to Eng-
land they left the country somewhat like
" socjal Pariahs, whom their countrywomen
n regarded as having forfeited the respect of
II heir sex on account of the startling
n doctr mes which they had promulgated and
n mt in practice while poor as the traditional
ii church mouse Their career had more than
n the usual ups and downs, but the family
I'd fortune was never at a lower ebb than at
II fine moment of their embarkation. Almost
u the entire rank and file of the Woodruff
Clafn combinat on quilted these inhospit-
able shores at the same time, d
the departure took something of the
81 nature of a conquered clan. In the party
II were the aged father and mother of the
= sisters. the former of whom died in England
"a some three years ago; the mother was a
q week ago living dangerously i'll ia Brooklyn,
N and it was in response to her summons that
8 her daughter sailed for New York. r But
what change in the fortunes of the two
a women the twelve years have brought
a about In her widest imagination Miss
4 Cladin never could have dreamed that she
q would one day be the wife of a CrOasus and
a baropet under one hat" and tnat her
older sister would be equally as we'll mar
( ried and as rich. 1t certainly is nothing
\ unprecedented for an American girl to set
QUO on q fishing excursion and hook a title,
but in the case of Victoria Woodruff and
Tennie c. Cafin it is a fms to what seems
4 almost q fairy tale, and the history of their
strange, eventful lives is so remarkable as
10 seem now, in view of their coed fortune,
almost incredible.
In recounting their history it is impossi-
bic to separate their twin-like experiences,
for they nave stuck to each other through
thick and thin alike. They are natives of
OhiO-Victoria was born in Homer, O., in
September, 1898, and Tennie a few year.
later-wher9 their parents were poor, and
the girls hut two of goodly sized family
Of children Their early education was
most meager, and they began life with
nothing but pretty faces and wonderfully
acute intelligence. Their early wears were
but one long record of vicissitudes, during
which Victoria had by turns tried her hand
at mediumizing, thanksgiving and acting.
while Iennie followed closely at her heels.
The mediumizng proved to be the most
glrls we're blossoming into womanhood the
Rochester craze was beginning to victimize
very gulllble public, and in one year in
columbus Mrs. WoOdhull's earnings were
said bv her friends TO haye been nearly
100000
When she arrived in New York, at the
house numbered II Great Jones street. she
vas very rich Woman. Long before this,
however-in fact, when she was only ID
N ouo- M i'll 7.
nlhS woodruff, her senior by many years,
VINO according to her own account, led her
terrible dance, and who spent most of his
lime IN his cups Two children were born
Of the marriage, boy who has been always
an invalid and, in 1861, daughter who
now lives with her mother in London. The
Journey to this CITY was taken at the advice
Oh Demosthenes, Mrs. Woodhulls spiritual
ss8e-aud surely, as affairs have turned out.
ne lusuhed his immemorial reputation for
sagaclty-where, as he said, the party
would lind the house in Great Jones street
Ieioy furnished and prepared for the
party. She accepted his advice and
Sle nrst object she laid her
hands on was the "Orations" of her
sp.rIl ADVISER. More earthly advisers had
,youuSeied her TO separate from her worth
reg hu'oand, obedience to ich had re-
sul' " Ia divorce, and second marriage
70 CoL James H. Blood, the once ce le-
Vt C3ted silent partner in the Woodruff.
I'qnin q 20 firm. The discarded Wood
nuH, subsequent to the separation, had
worked upon the soft side OF his wbilom
we and was again taken into her good
Graces. This dual ARRANGEMENT was the
U.s. aVowal of the emancinated ideas that
.ls Noodhull-Clafin corterie were to es-
pyuSe with their powers of public persua-
s siGu' ana that IN the crude idioul is termed
t5ee Love" Miss Tenne C.. Clatln. VINO
Iau evolved this style Of title out of her
uapuSmal name Of Tennessee. had been
uIoIe or less Of silent partner" too. 10 to
e9S point, but with the New York CHAPTER
NJ WE FAMILY history she began to play
prominent aud open part.
THE WALL STREET SCHEME.
III the last year of the sixties Wall street
-. JLaught ~ a sort of panic, the cause OF
coat vas the rustic of a woman's petit
ns one morning it was rumored that a
Icy! LEV urn had started in the street. the
p.luclpas OF which we're two shrewd. bust
to m women. The report was not without |
T-nuauon and the furry was momentous
,Leuule' with holiness Of convention that |
,oS as was startling had originated the !
Soene' and with Victoria had pushed IL TO |
S0ouu9h. Brokers and bankers who |
,Oppe1 IN to have a good look at the |
ssuarauders who had made this invasion |
bnsi 'u Two very pretty women, with the |
Old 80. IKE look on their faces Of staid, |
sIoa.la lpulators of the market, with their
readv fo ,olled up as 1t were for business and