The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-12-31
WOMEN IN THE MARKET.
How Two of Them Ran an ONCE in
Wall Street.
From the New York Press.

From the New York Press.
Lady Cook returns on the first of the
new year to her first love. That is, Tennie
Claflin goes back to the business of lady
broker. Her right name believe, is Ten
nessee Clafin, but she chose to change it
TO Tennie C. Claflin. When she and Vic
toria Woodruff came into the street some
thirty years ago and opened splendid Of
fees in the rooms formerly occupied by
Grey, and used by him for his gigantic
frauds they created a genuine sensation.
The firm name was Woodruff, Clahin q
Co.. the company" being a young man
from the South, of the name of ]. II.
Blood. He was said to be a colonel OF
cavalry in the Confederate army The
girls intended to deal in stocks and gold.
AS a curiosity they were an immense sue
cess. Crowds of brokers hung about then
offices all day, peeping through doors and
windows for a glimpse of the firm.
Lady Cook says that when she and Sis
ter Vicce were bankers and brokers IL
Wall street, they often had the market in
their hands I'VE operated for Jay Could
Vanderbilt and Fish" Yes, indeed. The
very day they opened business they de
posted in the bank Wanderbilt's check for
81, 800 The commodore admitted to friends
that he was backing the firm, ana the
sisters often were tracked to his house IN
Washington pace. Men doing business
with him met them there. In their Offices
they wore hats, heavy hignons, Grecian
bends ana taimas. Tennie did most of the
taking Niccie was nursing the presden-
tal bee, They had splendid rooms in the
Astor House where nightly receptions
we're given. Many brokers affirm that the
sisters were clairvoyants, and not few
believed that their business was conducted
through the Gearing house of the empy-
reau.
The street has known many women spec
ula tors, but none like the Clahins whose
father ! am told, was a noted cancer doc
tor. The latter history Of Tennie and Viccie
illustrates their cleveruess and their at
tractiveness, for both went to England and
became the wives of mil,ionaires. Recent
by a woman whose husband was clean
ed our took her little patrimony and went
among the brokers. A lucky turn in the
market gave her "a start, broker buying
her fifty shares of stock Just for the fun
of the thing" or to get rid Of her She
withdrew after week or two with enough
to rent a fashionable hotel for the sum-
mer at a nearby watering place, and this
she conducted so ably that she was en-
abled 70 retire with a competency.
Another woman who takes flyers In the
Street has the familiar racetrack habit Of
the sex-punching holes 10 the programme
with a pin and playing the horse whose
name Is puncturod. She knows not one
stock from another, but sits beside the
ticker armed with "a pin. which from time
10 time she sticks through the tape II IL
happens mat the pin penetrates Missouri
pacinc. che orders her broker 40 buy or
seil 100 shares. as the notion strikes her
II b goos through Metropolitan Street
Railway n b. buy or sell 100 OF that. !
thluk sho is wise. She does not Na awake
nights picking winners, but hifs as many
ln tho long run as any man who does.