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2. Extreme old age: the centenarians and nonogenarians of the metropolis, errors of the census, foreign vs. native longevity--Ireland leads the list, the old folk at home, interviews with ninety and nine New Yorkers of ninety years and over, milestones of memory, the revolution, George Washington, Napoleon I, the Rebellion of '98, amid great-great-grandchildren, indifference to hygienic surroundings--wonderful vitality