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Title: Sight-seeing in South America
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Frizell, William Givens, 1866- (from old catalog) Greenfield, George Henry, 1873-
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Publisher: (Dayton, Ohio, The Utterbein press)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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By Miss A. E. 1-iittison Mosaic Sidewalk on Avenida Central Dom Pedro II. gave a grand ball the night before he wastaken prisoner. Rios interest centers particularly in her avenues, publicbuildings, and business streets. Foremost is the AvenidaCentral, the most magnificent avenue in the world. Eight
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188 Sight-Seeing in South America years ago six hundred buildings stood in the very centerof it. There was then no street where the avenue nowruns. To build a city like Rio on virgin soil would havebeen an easy task compared with the problem that con-fronted the city fathers when they remodeled this cityof nearly a million inhabitants. The houses that stoodwhere this avenue has been con.structed were purchasedfor nearly eight million dollars, their assessed valuation.The next year, on the fifteenth of November, the anniver-sary of Brazils independence, the Avenida was opened tothe public. Certain details of architecture and rules ofhygiene are required in all buildings here constructed.The Avenida is one hundred and eight feet wide and oneand an eighth miles long. In the center are ovals forflowers, plants, and trees. Electric and gas lights onartistic poles combine to make the night as glorious asthe day. Mosaic sidewalks extend the entire length oneach side. White and black flint st

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