Belfast from Eastside

Belfast from Eastside

Here's the view of the Belfast waterfront from the East Side. From left to right one can see a number of items of interest. First is a large billboard advertising "Nutriola." This is a patent medicine from the Chicago company of the same name in which the flamboyant mayor of Belfast, Edgar Hanson found himself being charged with postal fraud regarding the advertising of this product (charges were eventually dropped). Next to the right is the Eastern Steamship Wharf with one of the several small steamboats which serviced passenger traffic to and from Belfast to assorted other towns as well as Boston. Also seen in the area are numerous small boats as well as a couple of gaff-rigged sloops with a two-masted schooner to their right. Behind the schooner, the building with the windmill is Hutchins Brothers Granite Works. A. E. Hutchins and F. S. Hutchins are the owners. Both are practical marble and granite cutters. Next, to the right, is Mathews Brothers to the left of Miller Street (large building with stack at the left side).  Just behind Mathews Brothers is a glimpse of the steeple of the Methodist Church (now the UU). To the right of that is the steeple of the Universalist Church (no longer a church) and to its right the First Church in Belfast (in its early days it was Congregational and Unitarian, now UCC). Below and to the right is the cupola on top of the Colonial Inn can be seen with the McClintock Block (3 story building with multiple chimneys with its gable end facing the bay) just below. To the right of the Colonial Inn is the Windsor Hotel & Annex (long building with multiple chimneys).