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Show ROOSTER DRIVEN TO DESPERATION Forbidden to Crow Before 6 O'clock a. m., Poor Fowl Finds Life Is Not Worth Living. NEW YORK. June 30. Ever since the Board of Health issued its edict that roosters must not crow or dogs bark in Mount Vernon between 10 p. m. and 6 a. m. there have been wholesale executions of fowl and dogs. The agitation was started by ex-Alderman ex-Alderman Howland and several other prominent residents on First avenue, and during the past week several bird fanciers have been keeping their roosters roost-ers in the cellars of their homes. Some have been trying to get muzzles for them. One man on South Fourth avenue says a fine old rooster actually committed com-mitted suicide by Jumping into a wash-tub wash-tub in his cellar when it found it had to sleep down there among the rats and mice. The new law adopted by the Mount Vernon Board of Health reads as follows: fol-lows: "The ringing of church, locomotive or other large bells, the blowing of steam whistles, the moving or shunting of trains, except in connection with the through traffic of the railroads, the handling or movement of large masses of rock metals or other substances, so as to interrupt or disturb the sleep of. residents within the City of Mount Vernon, between the hours of 10 in the ( evening and 6 in the morning; the : maintenance of crowing cocks, lowing ! animals or barking dogs, or other ani- , mals which produce or are calculated ' to create noise of a kind to disturb i the peace and quiet of the neighborhood neighbor-hood within the same hours is hereby prohibited." i Violation of the above ordinance is a misdemeanor and carries with it a fine ranging from $5 to $50. |