The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1932-03-15

what the movies call 'fade-out'."
He used the term known to the
movies, which made him wealthy
for half his business was in motion
picture film. Yet he was un-
known In Hollywood and on Broad
way where his film exposed in Hol-
lywood met the tests of popular
ity.
Eastman made his first million
clear in 1899 when he reorganized
the British Kodak company. He
described the incident.
II came home with n4fllion In
cash, all mine, 30 l fastened to
see my mother. said: Mother.
we have a whole million dollars
now. She looked up and smiled:
That's nice, George And she
never mentioned It again"
The mans hobbies, aside from
his photography and philanthropy,
included big game hunting, music
(although he could not carry
tune) and the 13-month calendar.
He thought the present calendar
of uneven months cumbersome and
illogical.
He covered more than 1000
miles in East Africa with Mr. and
Mrs Martin johnson during seven
months in the jungle, and re-
turned booking the picture of
HEALTH"
AS for music, he installed pipe
organ In his home, ana for years
1t accompanied a quartet which
sang in his home sunday nights.
He called himself musical mo-
ron" because he could not carry a
tune, but he wanted good music
for everybody because good music
could not be abused
Eastman liked to boast of his
cooking, that "he could boil eggs
three different ways" according to
Dean Carl Ackerman of Columbia
university, one of his biographers.
He made home made pies on
camping trips, Alderman said.
In his youth he toured Europe
on q bicycle.
He bought SO many new auto
mobiles his friends accused him OF
buying a car u 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 l
hours a day In the saddle. He
hunted and fished more than Theo-
dore 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
modern abbatoir on his North aCr-
DINA farm and claimed he could
measure everything about the pig
and Its products except the squeel."
His interest In cows became q
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 his own
hand he ended 1t.
"At noon, on Monday, he laughed
and joked with his attorney who
had drawn the codicil to, his VIII
and with the men from the office
WHO Huu COIIlo " WiShVSS Ave-
"And then a few minutes later,
when his room was empty, he
penned this note: TO my friends:
My work IL done. Why wait? G.
e.
"To those who knew the order
" 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
understood. j.
"a great man. At the end Of
the chapter, he wrote his own
'finis'."
on his savings Of $4,000. East
man opened his small factory for
the manufacture of dry plates In
1880. His partner In this enter
prise was Colonel Henry A. Strong,
a lifelong friend.
Twenty-Five years after the or
ganization OF the Eastman Kodak
company of New York, the East
man Kodak company of New Jer-
sew and incorporated for $4,000
600. its purpose being to acquire
and consolidate properties when
would be of service In developing
the parent company.
tThe business to-day Is conducted
principally in the home plant at
Kodak Park, Rochester, N. 7. the
manufacturing plant there occupies