Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-11-12
GoRKY ON GOTHAM
HIS RESENTMENT AGAINST THIS
COUNTRY.
Special cablesram to The Star.

Special Cablesram to The Star.
MILAN, November 10 (Copyright). =
Maxim Gorkys resentment against the
United States, whose people refused to IN
derstand and estimate at his own valua-
tfon his relations with Mime. Andrieva. the
companion whom he introduced to Ameri-
can society as his lawful wife, is spilled
forth in a volume which he is about to pub
lish in Italy. The author chooses this
country as the place of first issue Of his
Impressions Of the United States" which
Is announced as a Tribute OF Affection to
the Democracy of Italy" for during his
sojourn In Sorrento his family concerns
were not subject to public comment.
F AS Gorky, in his narrative, nears New
York, the first object pointed out to him is
the gigantic Statue of Liberty, and he
feels duly impressed
But once he arrives within New York, he
writes, he realizes that he has pene-
trated stomach of stone and iron, that en-
gorges, assimilates and digests millions OF
men and greedly awaits endless thrush
OF others. He, finds, he says, that he has
entered city OF slaves.
A Weird Picture.
'The faces of the men are immobile,
calm. None of them betrays that he is a
slave of this monstrous city's life-in truth,
it's daily victuals. These men in their
doiorous blindness believe themselves to be
the masters Of their destiny, but In reality
they do not understand that their indie
pendence is none other than the independ-
ence of the brush in the hands of the
Whitewater; Of the hammer in the hands
of the smith; of the bricks in the hands of
the unseen builder, who, ripping with
pleasure, constructs for every one of them
an enormous and secure prison.
Many energetic faces are to be met with.
but in all the first thing that strikes you
is their teeth. The inner liberty of the
spirit sparkles not in their ewes. This en-
ergy without liberty recalls the cold bright
ness of the knife, the freshness of new I'M
used cord. Their liberty is that of sightless
utensils in the hands Of the yellow demon
OF gold.
This is the first time have ever seen so
huge city. Never before have men seemed
TO me so fmpotent, so enslaved by life. And
at the same time never have in any other
place encountered man SO tragi-comically
seif-satisfied as in this greedy, engorged,
loathsome stomach. which from cupidity has
fallen into idiocy; which consumes brains
and nerves with brutal, bestial mastication.'
Flowers and Children Missing.
Gorky sees in the sky-scrapers and gen.
eral architecture of New York further to-
kens "of pride in its own stature md of
brusishness. lack of liberty and vulgarity
of taste" From afar this city resembles "a
mastodonfc mouth. with black, irregular
teeth, putting clouds of smoke toward
heaven, groaning as one afflicted with heart
disease" While inside New York, in it's
"inelegant. heavy. ugly houses, shorn of all
beauty, are incarcerated Insignificant men,
and at windows you perceive neither flowers
nor children.
In the public squares befIaur
small. whes.s the dripping lea, IS hang from
motionless boughs of trees, stand aloft sooty
statutes, their faces covered with stratum
OF filth. Their eyes, that once CLEANED with
love of fatherland. are now yelled in the
dust OF the city. Those figures of bronze
dead and SOLITARY, massed amidst the four
story houses. seem like pigmies amid the
dense shadows Of immense masonry. 1t
would seem that, smitten by the chaos Of
folly around them, they remain motionless,
gazing with sorrow of heart at this avid.
odious human strife that surges at their
pedestals.
''Diminutive black-faced men pass hur-
rfedly before these monuments, but not one
dreams of casting glance upward upon the
faces of heroes. The acid influences of capt.
talism have cancelled from the popular men,
ory the Importance Of these creators OF lib
erty. The bronze figures appear pensive,
with the same thought. Each seems to ask
is this. forsooth. the sort of existence I
wished to found?''