The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-05-24
HUNDRED CANDLES IN
HER BIRTHDAY CAKE
Mrs. Westervelt, Who Has Seen
Century Roll BY, Gay
at Her Party.
HUNDREDS GREET HER
"Lovcly as Coming Out Party"
She Says to Daughter
Of Seventy.

HAcKrNsAcK, N. j., May 2s.--Ann
Westervelt--Ann Lozier that was--in a
new black silk and cap with straw color
ribbons. her cheeks as pink az a dawn
flushed sky. kept her hundredth birthday
to-day with an old fashioned party at
her home, 81 State street. Hackenssck
She shook hands with 500 persons first
and last. and after the last visitor had
taken a piece OF birthday cake and with
Il friendly hand futtcr had slipped out Of
the sitting room Grandma turned 10 her
daughter Of threescore and ten and said :
at has been as lovely as. a coming out
party. | feel just like a girl. II only
Jasper could have been here!'
A tear stood OH her cheek Her only
son died last year at IS. His mother went
TO the old farm at Teaueck, where she
was born. for the funeral The ride in a
taxicab to and from the farm was her
fret motor trip. 1t might have seemed
rather an undertaking for an old lady Of
30 but Grandma stood IL well.
She looked the wonderful old lady that
she Is as she sat to-day In a rocking chair
(from the FARM noddlng to the friends
who filed before her and smelling little
cluster OF sweet peas that she held tightly
all afternoon.
Only Mite Among offerings.
They were only mite among the Offer
busy filling vases. First in honors came
lilies OF the valley, which had been
brought over from the home at Teaneck.
Then there were old fashioned azaleas.
roses that matched Grandma's cap rib
bons. 'plnks," lilacs and what Grandma's
mother called flower de luce.
On a side table stood huge frosted
cake with 100" In the centre Smaller
cakes. oruately iced, kept coming in until
II looked as IL Grandma would have to eat
cake lnste lead OF bread hereafter. like the
queens of those fairy tales that endeared
themselves to children long ago.
About Grandrna's neck was collar
OF real lace just as old as she. II be-
longed TO her mother. When she Is done
with IL the lace may deck the gown OF
bride twenty years hence. For Grand
ma has a great-greatigrandch!id, the
con OF AIR. and Mrs. John Bryant OF Ban
gor. Me. Young Mr.. Bryant wasn't pres
snt yesterday because he Is hardly old
enough to stand such parties as well as
Great eat-Grandmother westervelt.
On "A table in tho parlor for the In
spection OF all corners lay proof OF Grand
mas age--the leaves from family Bible,
with birth dates. marriages and deaths In
writing stll clear rs print though the
ink was brown with age.
Record Kept at Old Farm.
That too came from the farm at Tea
neck. where. indeed, Grandma lived her
self until thirty-five years ago. when she
came to her daughters home in Hacken-
sack, 4 house that was then new. but
now seems itself respectfully eyed.
Grandma Is deaf and walks mostly with
cane, but these are the only conces
sions she has made TO the years. lr
exactly a week-on Decoration Day
occurs the seventy ninth anniversary o.
her marriage to Peter =. Westervelt.
In holding a simple and old fashioned
birthday party Grandma seemed to several
visitors to be establishing a new prec'
edent for centenarians. No one asked
her what she thought OF automobiles oil
woman suffrage. and she refrained with
out effort from giving a recipe for Ions
life. She did not say whether or not sh'
wants TO make trip in an aeroplane, an'
not a soul knows what she considers TIT
greatest invention OF the century.
with real delight in her eyes ant
that marvellous pinkness OF cheeks sh
tust sat and smiled. gave her hand an'
nodded her pleasure, while young and oil
passed before her.
81 Ike folks about me-" she said once
90 she had her own party quite In he
own way.