The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-15

camping trips, Alderman said. In
his youth he toured Europe on BIZ
cycle.
He bought so many automobiles
his friends accused him of buying
car a month.
He chartered private yachts,
Pullman cars and airplanes, but
never bought one, Alderman re-
vealed.
On his last fishing trip to Snake
river, Wyoming, he rode eleven
hours in the saddle. he hunted
and fished more than Theodore
Roosevelt. He ranked next to
Rockefeller and Carnegie in his
philanthropies.
He liked flowers, and for three
years prepared charts on roses,
counting the buds himself.
Then when the manufacturer be-
came interested in pigs, he built a
modern abbatoir on his North Car
oline farm and claimed he could
measure everything about the pig
and its products except the squeal."
Curtains Tor Barn
His interest in COWS became a
joke among close friends. They sent
him lace curtains for his COW barn.
Lewis B. Jones, vice-preSident OF
the Eastman Kodak Company, paid
this tribute:
George Eastman played the
game to the last BY his own hand
he lived his life, and by mis- own
hand he ended it.
"At noon, on Monday, he laughed
and joked with the attorney who
had drawn the codicil to his will
and with the men from the office
who had come to witness it,
And then a few minutes later,
when his room was empty, he
penned this note: TO my friends:
My work is done. Why wait? G. E.
ITO those who knew the orderly
working of his mind, his passion
for being useful, always useful, his
dread of an illness that might make
him mentally as well as physically
inactive, his act can be under
stood.
"A great man. At the end of the
chapter, he wrote his own fms
Opened Small Plant
On his savings of $4,000, East
man opened his small factory for
the manufacture of dry plates in
1880. His partner in this enterprise
was Colonel Henry A. Strong, life
long friend.
Twenty-Five years after the or
ganization of the Eastman Kodak
Company of New York, the East
man Kodak Company of New Jersey
was incorporated for $35,000,000, its
purpose being to acquire and con-
solidate properties which would be
of service in developing the parent
company.
The business today is conducted
principally in the home plant at
Kodak Park, F ochester, N. Y. The
manufacturing plant there occupies
seventy buildings spreading over 400
acres. More than $4,000 persons are
employed in the plant.
In 1912, Mr.. Eastman instituted
the wage dividend plan in his bust
ness. This permitted employees to
share in the profits, and twenty
years later, there was a stock dis
tribution which made virtually every
employe a stakeholder.
Throughout the world, are located
sources of supply owned by the
company. 1t operates branches in
Paris, Budapest, Toxic, Peiping,
Manila, Honolulu, Panama City,
and other large cities. Mr.. Eastman
retired from the presidency of his
company recently, but remained as
chairman of the boards.
Slogan Was Famous
Mr.. Eastman's sinplified camera,
the foundation of this corporation,
was a small box taking pictures az
inches in diameter, 100 exposures
to the film. He named the camera
a kodak" and advertised:
you push the button, we do the
rest"
Users of the camera, it was ex-
planned, were to send it to Roches-
ter after the 100 exposures, where
it would be unloaded, the films de-
veloped and printed, and the box
reloaded.
George Eastman was born at Wa
terville, oneida county. New York,
July II, 1854. His father, George
Washington Eastman, was a pio-
neer in the organization of bust
ness college. When the father died,
the college declined. Young East
man was forced to leave school at
IA and go to work for So a week,
the beginning of the active career
which ended so dramatically.
Funeral arrangements were to be
L.. L.