The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-12
MARKTYRINMTE
RUSSIAN GREETS AUTHOR IN
WHOSE WORK HE DELIGHTS.
His Hotel q Prison. but More Delightful
Than 4 IOIga Fortress -MarvelS at Our
Actlvity-Came Here TO Help Cause OF
Liberty and Not in search Of Health.

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There were varying opinions yesterday
around the Hotel Delleclaire, at which
! Gorky, Russian revotutioniss and socialist
is stopping, about the real object of his
visit to America.
One was that he was a victim of tuber'
culosis, and had come here to seek restora'
ton in the balm Of southern California.
He denied this, repeating hat he did not
know how long he would stay in America
He also declared that his main design
while here was to help along the cause OF
the revolution. He wished it to be en-
phasized that he was not an anarchist, but
a socialist; that his political theories were
constructive and not destructive.
He was in the hands Of his friends,
he said, and they would map out a pro-
gramme for him. He did not know whether
or not he would make an appeal to the
public for funds or whether he would write
articles for the newspapers and magazines
and devote the proceeds to the cause of the
revolution. He expressed much confidence
in the ultimate triumph of the revolutionary
forces, and said il could be brought about
only by the use Of arms.
He will not write any fiction while here
Fiction, he said was not in demand in Russia
now. The populace hat could read were
! devouring political literature only. The
underground" agitation was kept up
persistently and would surely result in the
liberation Of the people.
More than one hundred persons, includ-
ing Oscar S. Straus. former Minister to
Turkey. called on Gorky yesterday. He
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and through his wife, who speaks German
and French huently. he gave some of his
impressions of the town, or as much OF 1t as
he has been able to see from his lofty
windows.
He was astonished at the great mountains
of steel and stone and the marvellous &C
tivity OF the people. 1t seemed to nm
to give TO mankind the government that
it ought to have, The people seemed the
very incarnation of progress,
The Hudson. which he could see from
his windows plainly, reminded him of the
Volga. He had been in prison near the
Volga, and he also was practically a prisoner
in the hotel. He could not go about and
talk to anybody because he knew only his
own language. But it was a much pleas
anter prison thar a fortress.
Mrs. Gorky, who was an actress before
her marriage TO the novelist. has the ,wift
utterance aud brilliancy of a clever Aneri-
can woman. She is delicate of form and
! face and has an olive complexion and black
eyes that are nearly always laughing Her
bright face is in striking contrast to the
earnest and calm one Of her husband She
also submitted to nm interview. She said
that she had once appeared in one OF her
husbands PLAYS. hut that she was no longer
an actress, but simply her husbands
wife"
Gorky said that tho popularity Of Mark
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of so large a number of the people, was
greater, perhaps, than it was in America.
More than a hundred different editions of
his books had been printed in Russian.
The people understood his 10 'eS quite well,
but were fascinated by the natural way IN
which he told his stories. 1t was a ! art of
the national education in Russia to read
Mark Twain. Mr. Gorky had read every
thing Mark Twain had written that had
been translated into Russian. .
In a talk about great writer's Gorky placed
Shakespeare first, saying that he was stag
Schopenhauer and Njetzsche. His favorite
poets were Byron and Heine. He liked
Flaubert and Goethe and also was fond Of
Dumas tn elder.
Gorky attended two dinners last night,
one given at 8 Fifth avenue by Norodny.
a banished revolutionist and underground
worker, and the other given by H. Gaylord
Wiltshire at his home in West Ninety-third
street.
Among the guests at the first dinner
were Mark Twain, Robert Hunter, Tchay-
kovsky, the Russian intellectual; Robert
Collier. Arthur Brisbane, Leroy Scott and
David Graham Phillips. Mark Twain and
Gorky recognized each other before they
we're introduced, but neither being able
to understand the language of the other
they simply grasped hands and held on
more than a minute.
Gorky and Mark sat nest to each other
at the table, with Norodnyson one side and
Gorky's adopted son, Nicolay Zazolsky
PieshkoT,. who acted as interpreter for
s Mf5k h and had Go reSyd " Mar the r% %taeF: s Gorey
when he was a boy and that he had gotten
much delight from them, Mark declared
that he also had been a reader and admirer
of Gorky. The smile OF Gorky was broader
and not 80 dry as the smile of Marx, but
both smiles we're distinctly those Of fellow
hnmorists who understood each other.
Gorky made a little speech which was
translated by a Russian who knew English,
Gorky said he was glad to meet Mark Twain,
world famous and in Russia the best known
force and convictions, who, when he hit,
he hit hard l have come to America to
get acquainted with the American people
and ask their aid for my suffering country
men who are fighting for liberty. The
~despotism must be overthrow now and
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Mark said he was glad to meet Gorky,
adding, II we can help to create the Russian
republic let us start in right away and do
it. The fighting may have to be postponed
a while, but meanwhile we can keep our
hearts or the matter and We can assist the
Russian s in being Free
Mr.. Hunter said a committee was being
formed, Of which William Dean Howells.
Robert Collier and Mark Twain were mem
bers, to assist in raising funds to aid the
movement for Russian freedom. The COM
mittee would soon issue an appeal to the
American people for funds to be used in
giving to the Russian the sa me rights en-
loved by the Americans, free dom of the
press. freedom of religion, freedom Of
speech and the ballot. The money would
be forwarded to a central committee now
being organized in Russia.
Among those to greet Gorky at Mr.. Will
shire's apartments were Edwin Markham,
Prof. Franklin Giddings of Columbia.
Z. j. Ridgway and a lost of All
hands drank Russian tea and some smoked
Russian cigarettes. Gorky, through an
interpreter, talked about Russian conditions
and the coming revolution.
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