The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-05-26
SOLDIER AND SCHOLAR IS INTERPRETER FOR
 INDTANAPOLIS SPEEDWAY


 Indianapolis, Ind, May 26-It all happened through the receipt of a message. It was not a. long message. ten words at most. yet it caused more excitement around the Indianapolis Motor Speedway office than any in- formation which has been received since preparations were begun months ago for the 500 mile race which is to be held May 30 It conveyed the in formation that none of the foreign drrvers-Goux and Zucarre1H of the Peugeot, Guyot of the Sunbeam, Pfl- 1ette of the Mercedes Knight. Trucco Of the Isotta, not to mention their corps of mechaniciane, relief drivers and other assistants, could speak Eng fish.
 'sThat's easy" suggested 2, newspaper man, ';hire an interpreter and let him do the worrying for you"
 It looked easy sure enough, but aI1- other question presented itself. Where was the interpreter to be found7
 'T am surprised at you" said the newspaper man to the Speedway press agent, tfHeFe you are, a newspaper man yourself, and you don't know that the Honorable Jimmy Collins, presiding officer of the court which meets daily at Central Police Station, has a dozen interpreters at his disposal. Telephone Jimmy and tells him to send a man" "
 The press agent S1BI16Q eS 116 Eo44hO41A- bered the long nights when he. as a reporter, had sat in the stuffy press room at police headquarters. He also smiled as he thought of one of the in terpreters there becoming the compan- ion and constant associate of Goux, the engineer who holds a degree from the Sorbonne, or Of Zucarelii, once a marine engineer in the Italian navy, or of Pf1ette, the millionaire Brussels sportsman. His smile grew into laugh as he thought what would hap pen if one even suggested to Vincenzo Trucco, the trim little Italian who IS said to know more about internal com bustion engineering than any other man in southern Europe that he sit at table three times a, day for fifteen days with 'eAGacaroni Pete-p DaSo Tony'f or others of that score or Po- lice court fangers-on who serve as in terpreters. when foreign speaking men and women caught in the police net, are brought before the Honorable Jm1- my Collins,
 No. it wouldn't do. An interpreter must be secured, but he must be a man of refinement, of education He must know both French and Italian, and he must also know English as flu ertIy as the foreign tongues; He must be able to speak the technical language oS the auto1pob1Ie industry equally well in all three three, and he must hS able fo sxten4 Al4 af those 9ittls gocaal s@a to make the tqreign driverz feel that ia eorping to America they had come to a land where the people know how to do things correctly and how to make a. stranger feel at home.
 Fhere are many Italians of high class living in India4apolis, and there is a. goodly colony of French. But it wa.s 1io easy matter to find a man who could be both French and Italian. Be- sides the high elase French and Italian residents of Indianapolis are all oue- mess men who would find 1t 1npossa- ble to devote their time and attention fo 6nberpretfng for the Speedway. A college professor was also thought of, but the colleges have not closed, ana a faculty man could not leave his work at this season of the year.
 Things were getting into a fine mud dIe. when the unexpected happened. One day a tall distinguished looking gentleman walked into the office of the local Speedway management His martial bearing at once betrayed him as one who had been a soldier. and upon the lapel of his coat was pinned the Cross of the Legion of Hpnor
 He introduced himself in perfect English as Professor s. M. Pintenta, at present language teacher, but with a past which would turn the ultra-ro- unanCeF green WILD envy. 1n6R A@ proceeded to produce official docu- ments which proved his claim.
 Ptpaienta, despite his Italian name which he has inherited from 8 great EErand father, is 8 Frenchman. born and reared in Paris. His father was a colonel in the French army and a scholar of great repute. The son also loved learning, and in the pursuit of his studies took the degree of Doctor o3 Phi1isophy from the Sorbonne. At fhe University of Pisa in Italy he made post graduate studies and then he went to Madrid as an attache of the French embassy. Here he con tinued his studies, registering at the University of Madrid. and he did not cease until he had acquired the degree of this noted place of learning.
 But with his father an army officer, an older brother in the navy and an other brother connected with the med icaI corps Of the French army, it was only natural that Pinienta should also long for a military career, and so returning to Paris, he passed the ex- animation for a lfeutenancy.
 It was not Parisian garrison duty, te sought however, but real active service, where he could experience life as one experiences it in the midst of a campaign His ambition was soon grattffed, for he was sent to Algters, there to take part in a war against the Mocrs.
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