The L'Anse sentinel., 1922-10-13
Move 100000 Yards Of Dirt at
Rio de Janeiro to Make
Room for Suburb.
10 ADD IS BLOCKS TO CITY
High-powered Pumps Wash Dirt Down
Through Fumes to the Sea-
: Mountain Now Disappearing
Has interesting History.

New York.-Rio de Janerio Is to
have new suburb and to make room
for 1t 7,0O0,000 cubic yards of dirt are
to be catapulted into the sea. Modern
science has once more made land
where there was open sea sliced off
4 roek-ribbed, rock-glrdei hill that
city may have better ventilation and
sanitation. Since 1867, according TO the
Literary Digest, the remains of the
founder of Rio de Janeiro, EstaciO de
Sa, have rested on this hill, so that
II is regarded by the devout as nothing
short Of vandalism. But despite the
opposition Of the church, a combined
counsel of medical and housing ex-
perts has prevailed, and in less than
is months 60 blocks of good business
property and 20-block public park
will Stretch along the new sea wall.
built 30 keep this most recent sub
urb from slipping into the ocean.
Says TIE New York Times in an
article on the subject:
although this addition to Rio de
Janeiro Is often called suburb. 1t
should be designated an an
mex, for 1t lies not far from the CEN
ter Of the city and close to Vermelha
beach, where the exposition is being
held. To continue the work on the
new till-in, begun in the early part OF
this year, big pumps which carry or
the dirt will have to operate over the
tops Of some of the exposition build
ings.
Work Of Eight Years to Take Two.
For protection against fire 1t has
been proposed to make connections
with the discharge lines at convenient
points. According to engineers any
building could be flooded in ten min
Ntes. In this way the machinery which
b throwing sea water against the dirt
and rock on the hilltop, washing 1t
down through fumes to the sea. will
serve a double purpose.
Years ago tho work Of removing
this hill was s,yrted by native con-
tractors who used mule-drawn carts to
carry the dirt and stone to the sea
wall In estimating the cost of this
work II was found that 1t would be
something like rs cents cubic yard
and would taken eight years. With
the high-powered pumps now installed
Il will not cost more than 25 cents Il
cubic yard and will take less than
two years.
'1'ho material to be moved Is 10 per
cent rock and So per cent dirt. The
fock will be removed by steam shovels
and the dirt by three pumps. One Of
these pumps VIII take care of four
hydraulic gianth, each with 3h-inch
steeam at the nozzle. Twelve of these
giants will shoot the earth from the
tup of the fill 70 the fill-in. A sea wall
three miles lcng and about half a mile
eide has beta constructed to receive
6e debris.
"Close to tbe new land being made
along the wafer front will stand the
kermanent United States embassy
ndilding now under construction by a
New York firm"
Became One OF the Stones.
The mountain now disappearing has
On interesting history, we are told.
The writer says Of IT.:
"In the year 1855 Frenchman ar
rived with a band of Huguenots in
She Ray of Rio de Janeiro, and here
IN this landlocked bay the first Prot
sstant service In the Americas was
ssid to havN been held by T. ese
wandering ss.sors. To expel these
bfenchmen. the Portuguese governor
al Bahia sens his nephew, Estacio de
Cr, to found q settlement on. Guiana
bora bay. In t667 Sa was killed by the
french. The little village he founded
was then me7ci to the top Of the hill
where the Church Sac Sebastiao was
begun in the year Of Estacio de Sa's