 Society wives and widows, teachers, small-business owners, actresses, and high-priced prostitutes and their madams sought out Woodhull, Claflin, & Company and the firm was an immediate financial triumph.The sisters soon rented an expensive apartment on 38th Street in the exclusive Murray Hill section of Manhattan.With the profits from their brokerage, the sisters started their own radical newspaper, "Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly".