New Britain herald., 1929-08-21
WARSAW TAXI MAN
 HAS READY TONGUE
Speaks F Languages Acquired in Va6abondinS Around World

New York, N. Y, Aug. 21-This city may be the only one in this wide world with the largest assOrt- ment of nationaIities among it's thousands of taXiCab drivers, but the capital of Poland, Warsaw, may justly claim the honor of having among it's comparatively few taxi operators, many men who can speak as many as six languages fluently. More than that-WarsaW boasts of one man in particular, who besides Lcing an expert driver is an accom- plished linguist, having mastered 12 languages.
 The taxi business in Warsaw as in many European cities is quite a novelty, as up toothe last day of the World War and even for a few years after, most cities, especially in Cen tral Europe. still chung to the tradi- tional slow moving horse drawn car riagcs and hacks.
 This business in Poland is still in it's infancy, not more than five years old and Warsaw with d population of more than a million has approXi mately 5000 public motor vehicles.
 Flags Denote Languages spoken
 Like the policemen, who wear vari-colored stripes on their sleeves, cmblcmatiC Of the various languages they are capable of speaking, the taXiCab operator in Warsaw, who can speak any other language be- sides Polish, displays a miniature flag of the nation whose language he speaks, on the windshield of his machine.
 Visitors returning from Poland where they attended the first Polish National Exposition in Po2nan, bring authentic tales of a yourg man in Warsaw, who displays a series of flags on his cab.
 According to the information gathered from tourists, who had the unique distinction of being driven about in his cab, the young man appears to be no more than 25 years of age, of an extremely quiet ana unassuming disposition, sad-looking eyes and intelligent features. He speaks nine languages fluently- Polish, Russian, English, French, German, Italian, Persian, Arabian and Hebrew, and speaks with some degree of difficulty, but well enough to be understood, three others, Span ish, Japanese and Turkish.
 
 He mastered some of the langu- ages at home and others during his extensive travels through Europe, Egypt, Morocco, Algeria. all coun- tries of Asia with the exception of Thibet the Malay Archipelago in cluding the islands of Java, Sumatra Borneo and CcleheS, also Form osa, Japan and Siberia. His last place of residence prior to returning 10 Warsaw was Moscow. He has never visited either of the Americas or Australia.
 He is not easily persuaded to re- late some of his eXperineces, but when pressed hard, he is willing to impart to his listener some of the adventures, which on the whore are very much novel-like. He left War saw at the age of l 5 with a friend despite strenuous objections from his parents and began his interesting career as gentleman vagabond. During his travels through the coun- tries of Europe he began the study of different languages, which he claims came to him without much difficulty The companionship with his friend was short-lived and he was forced to earn his own liveli- hood. Being well versed in several languages he found a job as official interpreter on ship and for some