If you mean the sign at the entrance under the striped awning to the left of the woman, I think it says 'YMCA Banquet' followed by a date (March 28th?) and then what look like menu options and prices - the second might be chicken.

[There is no March 28, no menu, no chicken. For the third time, dear people, scroll down to the first comment and click the photo!! The sign lists the speakers for the May 28 banquet (Murray, Ober and Smith, all from New York), and gives the ticket price -- $1 each, for "Ladies & Gentlemen." - Dave]

Yeah. I guess they did not mean your regular natural spitter. But more the kind who had to use spittoons in bars. Prodigious amounts of brown spit, enriched with tobacco leaves. Sometimes the whole plug.

Not really better than your regular chewing gum.

One does not want to step on either. Yuck!

[The reason for all these no-spitting ordinances and their hefty fines was tuberculosis and other communicable diseases. - Dave]

Thank God for antibiotics. I have a feeling those signs might make a comeback eventually. The things we take for granted is mindblowing.

So that would equate to a $7 fine.

[The fine is 20 *dollars* - Dave]

I remember my grandfather complaining about the spitting fine -- he was a tobacco chewer and spitting was part of that habit. And of course, such expectoration resulted in dirty, unsightly and unsanitary sidewalks and gutters.

"Boy Scout troops organized campaigns to paint "Do not Spit on the Sidewalk" notices on city sidewalks. In 1909 in Cincinnati, scout troops together with members of the Anti-Tuberculosis League painted thousands of such messages in a single night. A mass-produced sign seen in saloons read:

'If you expect to rate as a gentleman Do not expectorate on the floor'"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spittoon

Any way to discern what the YMCA Banquet sign says?

[Scroll down to the first comment. - Dave]

The sign on the building, that is ... can anyone with better eyes than I read what that says, unless I missed it in the first comment? (I DO see the sign warning against spitting which I assume was an anti-TB measure. TB being a common and deadly malady would also explain the high fine).

[Again, scroll down to the first comment and CLICK ON THE PHOTO. - Dave]

AHHH ok much more clearly I see it. Banquet May 28, speakers and the ticket price ($1.00 each) and "Ladies & Gentlemen" Thanks, Dave!

Demolished at age 24. Its not-nearly-as-fun-but-more-practical replacement:

... judging by the emissions in the foreground.

But spit on the sidewalk? A fine of $20? That is a whopping amount of money. $20 in 1906 was equivalent to around $730 today. That is an interesting set of priorities. I wonder how it was enforced?

for young men it's a fun place to stay.

Looks as though the weathervane is closer to God than the cross ... Why so high?
And does it seem odd to have chimneys above windows?

[That weathervane is a flagpole. And: what cross? - Dave]

... ON THE SIDEWALK. FINE $20