The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-08-17

'em down. Lay 'em down. One good
 one covers the bad ones"
 The best record of winning that was
 noted was one out of five plays and
 the five plays took just five minutes
 by the watch.
 Provisions as Prizes
 Of more than twenty-five gambling
 games counted the greater number
 were dispensing provisions, and fruits.
 Some had bags of flour and packages
 of cereals, others p1ums and peaches
 but even those which had novelties as
 prizes most of them had few gro-
 ceries in some form. The principle
 of all the games was the same. Money
 was laid on numbered squares and a, winning number determined by some one of several methods. Rolling
 marbles down a board amongst pins and taking the first one which land ed in slot was about as often used as allowing an Ives toy locomotive to run around a circular track until
 it stopped and a piece of rubber at tached to it's side indicated a number
 on the board Some determined the winning number by shaking a lot
 of numbered balls in a peach basket and then pouring them through a hopper and taking the first one through.
 IHSTe were d cOuplP OI ldTSe booths which carried nothing but one before which man, a woman and little girl stood, and listened to | the sirens tale. The woman gave | the girl nickel to place on a num- Der and the little eyes shone in an- | ticipation of the bright oolI Just out | of reach. The marbles rolled-but no | lucky number came out. A look | passed over the little face which | showed she did not comprehend the
 reason, and the man and woman look | ed almost equally blank. Another i nickel was given her and she played l it with no better luck. With one last l lingering look at the bright array of dolls she followed the man and | woman away struggling to keep the | salt tears back
 Gambling for Blankets 1 At one booth people were gambling ! for bedS blankets and one had ladies i silk stockings added to it's grocery l list as a further attraction. The l Times man played several of the ! games but luck did not even peek his
 way. The most novel game was a | horse race where twelve little cast I iron horses were placed in line, the | sloping table top vibrated by machin- i cry which caused the horses to slide 1 slowly down the length of the board | and of course the first one across
 was the winner. Among all the
 games going on there was only one in 1 to which the element of skill enter 1 ed. All the rest wereS games of | chance pure and simple on which | people staked their money to win
 something of value.
 1 What at first was suspe cted of be- 1 ing the biggest fake proved to be the ] only genuine thing on the grounds. | A hand cider mill ha q been set up and
 a couple were dispensing what they | claimed was sweet cider. The Times l man thought the mill to be merely | what show people call "property. As he watched he saw the owner pour
 a basket of real apples into the hop per and his curiosity got the better | of his incredulity. He purchased a 1 glass of the cider not ten minutes old and found it as fine as any he had | ever tasted.
 1 Old Attractions Missing. | Missing some of the familiar at | fractions he made a hunt for them | and found that the gambling for pro- I visions had crowded them into a con- | dition of "innocuous desuetude" so to i speak on a back street. The lady of ] palmistry sat alone in the door of
 her tent crocheting. The shooting ] gallery man was cleaning his rifles ir
 a dejected manner. The man with