BIRTHDAY CAKE FOR JUDGE.
Seventy-Five Colored Candles, One
for Each Year of John F. Philips'
Life, Presented at Dinner Party.
The seventy-fifth birthday of John F. Philips, federal judge, was celebrated by a dinner party, at which there were many prominent guests, in the Mid-day Club rooms, yesterday evening. One of the features of the evening was the presentation to the judge of a mammoth birthday cake containing a colored candle for each year.
The coincidence of the judge's birthday with New Years eve afforded an opportunity to those present to stay the old year out at the club. The time was well taken up with speeches and was enjoyed thoroughly by all, not excluding the host, who is yet the better of his years.
Judge Philips was born on December 31, 1824, and has been a judge of the United States district court since June 25, 1888.
