 Narodny organized a dinner in honor of Gorky on 12 April at the A Club Fifth Avenue and provided a setting for the announcement of a new committee to support the proposed Russian Revolution.This committee included Mark Twain, William Dean Howells, Robert J. Collier and Finley Peter Dunne.In 1915 the Russian Imperial Government published adverstiments in New York newspapers to undermine him presenting himself as a self-proclaimed "Russian Chamber of Commerce".