New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-07-23
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Denth Of Ferdinand Flake.

Death of Ferdinand Flake.
Flutes Bulletin comes to US in mourning
| for the death Of its founder, Mr.. Ferdinand
Flake, an announcement of whose death ap
peared in our New York dispatches few
days since. We copy the following from the
Bulletin:
The citizens of Galveston, as well as the
general public, will hear with profound sOr
row the announcement of the death of Fer
dinand Flake, the founder and editor il
chef of Flakes Bulletin. The telegram
which bears this intelligence will be found
below, and contains all that is known of the
event at this hour:
NEW YORK, June Is, 1872.
To S. Rinker, care of Jockusch Co.
Flake is dead His body is embalmed
and will be forwarded to Galveston.
FARMER, LITTLE & co.
Mr.. Flake was taken seriously i'll shortly
after his arrival in New York. He, how
ever recovered sufficiently to write, July 6.
referring to his illness, and expressing his
intention of going to the sea coast to recruit
his strength Subsequently two or three
letters were received by his family, which
we're more hopeful in tone, and intimating
that he would probably soon return home.
While anticipating his early arrival, we
were this morning shocked by the receipt of
the telegram announcing his death.
Ferdinand Flake was born in the village
of Refenhausen, Hanover, on September
10, 1922 At the age Of fifteen his parents
sent him to the college at GOttengen, where
his strong individuality of character and
his quick perception opened the way to
rapid progress in his studies. On quitting
school he was taken into the bank
ing house of Klettwig. Reibstein g. Co.,
where he served 40 term of three
years. While still young man lie took
charge of banking house near the Hartz
mountains, from whence he emigrated to
America, arriving in Galveston in l840 at
that early day there was nothing which Of
fered in the way of paying employment,
and being of too active turn to remain
a day idle, he Joined company with young
man, with whom he went to Colorado cOun-
ty and engaged in planting cotton.
For several years MIR. Flake appears to
have been engaged alternately in planting
and merchandising. Having raised a crop Of
tobacco on one occasion, for which he cOnld
not find a satisfactory market, he shipped
it to Galveston, and here commenced the
manufacture of cigars, which he continued
for several years, employing at one time as
many as fifteen hands in the business.
During the mayOralty of MI. SydnOr he
was appointed, first as constable and after
ward city marshal, positions which he filled
with his accustomed energy and faithful
ness. After the Mexican war, l847, Mr..
Flake went to Germany, and returned with
a stock of merchandise, on which be com
menced a trade, which continued until
1886; Here began his first connection
with the press of Texas. He purchased the
interest Of Mr.. F. Muir in Die Union, a
German paper, on the twentieth of March,
IS56-a paper which, as its name indicates,
was devoted to the upbuilding and Perpe-
tuity of the union of the States. When
South Carolina seeded, the Union, January
5, 1861, published a communication de-
nOuncing the act, which created intense ex-
ctement, and brought down the wrath of
the ire-eaters of Galveston upon the paper.
The closing exclamation, poor South
became the rallying cry of the
mob, which broke into the printing office,
then located on the Strand, battered the
type, broke the press, and threw the whole
into the street. Mr.. Flake confronted this
mob without qYailing, and announced his
purpose to continue the publications.
promise which he fully redeemed, not one
issue of the Union being interrupted. He
was aided by the better class of citizens,
who stood round him, though at times his
ife was thought to be in some peril from
5he excited crowd.
The paper was continued until 1862 when,
With all the others of Galveston, it was tenn
lOrarily suspended. Occasional extras were
published in English, upon the receipt of
Geographic dispatches. These
anne to be called, partly in banter,
adopted as the most appropriate title of the
Daper. In 1859 the excitement on political
Opics eliminated in a called cOnven-
ion Of the Democratic party at Waco. Mr..
Take was delegate to the convention, at |
7Lich discussion became very bitter, par
icuIarly upon a resolution looking toward |
ecessiOn, favoring the opening of the Afri- |
an slave trade, etc. These measures Mr.. |
lake opposed with all that intensity of de- |
unciatiOn of which he was so capable. The |
9solutions finally passed, and he then and |
here rose and renowned his allegiance to |
ne Democratic party, and never afterward
cted with it.
The war being over, in June, 1865, the |
'uilctj9I was made daily.
Mr.. Flake became editor of the Union |
ecember IL, 1856. 1t was three years later,
Il July 16 1859, that the tri-weekly was
arted. The daily was commenced June
J, 1870.
As these painful events have passed into
story, we prefer to make no further refer 7
ice to them than is due to vindicatiOn
the noble record of heroic man in times
at tried the materials that men were made
Let the bitterness and reprOaches which
ere the offspring Of those times be buried
ong with him whose memory we cherish,
1t whom we shall see no more upon the
lsy stage and in the stirring conflicts of
is life.
The Bulletin says, in another article:
" e are enabled to give the contents Of
spatch received later in the day yester-
" from Farmer, Little g. Co., touching
9 sad event which has east gloom over
is community.
They inform us that Mr. Flake was in
9W York on the eleventh, where he wrote |
letter, and afterward departed for New
'ndont Connecticut, to recuperate. He |
d suffered much from the excessive heat
d consequent nervous prostration. He
ed suddenly in New London on Tuesday
S remains, which had been embaimed
'uld be forwarded by the steamer CIyda !
the twentieth, and will arrive in Cal. ;
stOn about the first of August.
At meeting of the Greeley and Brown
10, Of which the late Ferdinand Flake
Is president, Saturday evening, appro-
late resolutions were adopted and eulo-
tic remarks were made by Judge c. B.
bin. !
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