The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-12-10
"kID" CAkFiELD SHOWS HOW THEY
 SKIN FEM ALIVE
With Complete Outfit of . Cards, Bones and Shells,
 He Lays Bare All the
 Tricks.

More effective by far than a ser mon or treatise directed against gambling is the expose of the stunts that professional gamesters employ 10 fleece their clients which Is in progress daily and nightly in a va- cant store in the heart of the bus mess section in this city,
 Kid" Garfield is the exponent of these stunts. The Kid was once a black sheep himself, confidence man and gambler. and he delighted just as much in selling gold brick to a associates. But all that has changed His guardian angel, or the prayers of his gray haired old mother, or some power for good, has worked a great reform in the Kid and now, as he exposes with lightning like rapidity the crooked features of the various games of chance, he pleads with h s auditors to forsake gambling of all sorts. Incidentally the Kid Is reap- ing rich harvest in the way of ad- missions. and receipts for the sale of his gambling expose book.
 and hand you full house or four kings without batting an eyelash. He will tell you just what he's going to throw at dice, will deceive you with the shell game until your eyes ache trying to follow him, and will play lHIcc CdI tHOuSS Wllu lll6 uGIIIOSl facility and everytime you're the dupe. But the interesting part of his exh. bition is that he shows you just how he does it.
 It's all very simple. when the Kid explains it to you. He will place on top of the deck, and deal it out to YOU. Then you look for the ace and it isn't there. He has it. It's all done by dealing from the bottom of the pack. Anyone can do that, you may say. But not many can do it like Kid Garfield, who tells you he's going to it and. then: though you your being able to catch him at it.
 Watch as you may for the shift in his three card monte game, you can't see it. If an old time gambler who knows the tricks tries to catch the Kid he has a few moves up his sleeve that deceive even them: Earay this his show because the Kd made a show of the gamblers inability to cope with the exhibitor.
 One of the interesting displays of the expose is the log rolling game, in favor in the west. seldom used here. If the Kid rolls the log, he rolls high numbers: If you roll it, they all come low. It's all in the way of rolling the little device, and fl you ask the Kid to show how it's done. he'll gladly do it.
 Shaking dice is one of the best things the Kid does. He has fair dice and loaded dice and he'll beat you with either sort. He won't gamble. mind YOU, in any of his experiments. He's satisfied to take your. dime as you enter the place, and he'll take another Cor the book he has written on gambling. But as for laying a wager on any of his stunts. he doesn't care to do it. He shows you now when you get into dice game, you bet your cash against sure thing. How the old time gambler manipu- lates the bones so that you haven't a ghost oe chance.
 It's better than dozen sermons to see the Kid. He'll be here few days more. If you've been up agalnst a brace game. consult old pr can field. He will cure you of all further desire to gamble.
 AS for the Kid, he says he was born in a little town near Colun nus. O.. back in '76 He learned the tricks in little hotel his father conducted, and by gradual stages became a pro- fessional gambler. clearing up l1n- mense profits nv following cfrcuses and fairs about the country. But the easier it comes. the quicker it goes, is the Kids dope on the financial sit nation. hence he has abandoned h's shawn practices for the legit'n' te method of ga+hering in the shekeis he Is now following.