The Adair County news., 1922-09-26
Move 1000, 900 Yards of Dirt at
s Rio de Janeiro to Make
Room for Suburb.
TO ADD IS BLOCKS TO CITY
High-powered Pumps Wash Dirt Down
Through Fumes to the Sea-
Mountain Now Disappearing
Has Interesting History.

for it 100000 cubic yards Of dirt are
to be catapuited into the sea- Modern
science has once more made land
where there was open sea; sliced off
a rock-ribbed, rock -girded 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
Il 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 65 blocks of good business
property and a 20-block public park
will stretch along the new sea wall,
built to keep this most recent sub
urb from slipping into the ocean
Says the New York Times in an
article on the subject:
although this addition to Rio de
Janeiro is often called Il suburb, it
should be designated an an
mex, for. it 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 fll-in, begun in the early part OF
this year, big pumps which carry on
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 it has
been proposed to make connections
win the discharge lines at convenient
pots. According to engineers any
building could be flooded in ten min
utes. In this way the machinery which
is throwing sea water against the dirt
and rock on the hilltop, washing it
down through fumes to the sea, will
serve a double purpose.
Years ago the work of removing
this hill was started 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 it was found that 1t would be
something like 70 cents cubic yard
and would taken eight years. With
the high-powered pumps now installed
1t will not cost more than % cents
cubic yard and will take less than
two years. .s--.-..
'sThe material to be moved is Is per
cent rock and 85 per cent dirt. The
rock will be removed by steam shovels
and the dirt by three pumps. One OF
these pumps will take care Of four
hydraulic giants, each with 31a-inch
stream at the nozzle. Twelve Of these
giants will shoot the earth from the
top Of the fill to the fill-in. A sea wall
three miles long and about half mile
wide has been constructed to receive
the debris.
"Close to the new land being made
along the water front will stand the
permanent United States embassy
building now under construction by a
New York firm"
Became One Of the Stones.
The mountain now disappearing has
an interesting history, we are told.
The writer says of 1t:
'In the year 1855 a Frenchman ar
rived with a band Of HuguenOts in
the Bay of Rio de JaneirO, and here
in this landlOcked bay the first Prot.
estant service in the Americas was
said to have been held by these
wandering sailors. To expel these
Frenchmen, the Portuguese governor
at Bahia sent his nephew, Estacio de
Sa, to found a settlement on Guiana
bora bay. In 1857 Sa was killed by the
French. The little village he founded
was then moved to the top of the hill
where the Church Sac Sebastiao was
begun in the year of Estacio de Sa's
death. Here it has stood all through
the years, and here has rested the
remains of Estacio.
"Now the old church must come
down to make room for the growing
city. The district around it has de
generated until MORO de CASTILLO Il
said to be inhabited by the poor, the
shiftless and the vicious. The slum:
OF Rio de Janeiro are usually on the
hills, for the rich do not like to wall
lin fact, will not walk in the hea
and the sun-and therefore choosl
a home nearer the sea. So the hill
tops, with their unsurpassed view %
the harbor, are left to the poor.
"In 1889, after the fall of the mon
archy, removal of the capital was con
sidered to some other location on &C
count of yellow fever. This diseast
has, been cleared out of the country
and a satisfactory system of santa
ton installed. That certain portion
of the hill slums would not submit 4
the usual health regulations has bee
2 sore point. Sojourners On Moro q
CASTILLO have been a law unto then
selves in a measure, end it is onl,
when modern science is taking thei
hili from them thai these feuda
dwelIers are at last being forced f
pitch their tents Ai:ess IiiRs viii NO
be menace to the ~kss kea!tn"