Eastman, Akeley

Presidents have sought game in the wildernesses of the earth, so have Presidents' sons, and frontiersmen, and sportsmen--but rarely have retired manufacturers.

George Eastman, famed maker of kodaks, is in a fair way to set a precedent. Recently he retired from the presidency of his company to gain a "more detached view of life." He planned a visit to Alaska. That is being carried out this summer.

But he is going even further afield. It was announced last week that he would go on a hunting expedition with the famed hunter Carl Akeley into the interior of Africa.

The expedition will start early next year. Mr. Akeley is going, not for mere sport as some hunters go, but to collect museum specimens. He will sail for Africa before the New Year. In March the remainder of the party--including Mr. Eastman--will follow. They will start from Mombasa and travel into the hinterland 24 hours by rail to Nairobi. Six months will be spent in the great game country, where Theodore Roosevelt hunted elephants, hippopotami, rhinoceri, lions, leopards, zebras, giraffes, antelopes and gazelles in 1909. This is Mr. Akeley's fifth trip to the same region. Guns, cameras and scientific eyes will be brought to bear upon African fauna and flora in the interests of Science.