Vol 1, No 10

Articles in this issue

• Deliberazioni del Consiglio (opens in a new tab)

  Minutes of the Council's sittings of 1, 9 and 23 October 1895 (attended by Bertarelli, Carugati, Forlanini, Luzzatto, Riva, Segrè, Tarra, Venegoni, Dell'Oro, Gorla and Magnasco): the Council refers the debt owed by sig. Mazzolari to legal-section head avv. Dell'Oro, discusses Vito Pardo's proposal to found first-aid and repair "stazioni" T.C. rest-posts on isolated roads, and declines requests from over 250 Consoli for local badge and pennant deposits owing to the accounting burden.
• Assemblea Generale straordinaria del 9 novembre 1895 (opens in a new tab)

  Official record of the sealing and mailing of ballot papers for the 9 November 1895 extraordinary general assembly: a commission of dott. Giuseppe Forlanini, avv. Osvaldo Fioroni, rag. Ettore Poisa and rag. Romeo Riva stamped and posted 2,372 ballots to members on 19-20 October, sealing 200 spares at head office, with scrutiny to take place at the club's rooms at 8pm on 9 November.
• Sezione Strade (opens in a new tab)

  Road-section notes from Luigi Vittorio Bertarelli: new Istituto Geografico Militare map sheets are listed, an earlier note on the Valperto urn near Tradate and a Brescia monument caption are corrected, and progress is reported on re-measuring the new road Guida with curvimeters across 2,000-plus map sheets; he also relays members' hill-climbing tests (Francesco Gola, 111kg, up to Alagna; ing. Luciano Casalini, Console at Vicenza, 12km at 7%), gives a recipe for an improvised rope-and-log drag brake for alpine descents tried at the Sempione's Rifugio N.9, and answers Genoese readers offended by the Guida's description of their city.
• Alberghi accordanti facilitazioni ai soci del T.C.C.I. (opens in a new tab)

  A list of hotels offering members fixed discounted rates, including the Albergo Ruffoni at Arona, the Concordia at Bergamo, the Garibaldi at Frosinone, the Hotel Garni Walter at Lugano, the Sempione at Lesa, the Umbria at Perugia and the Caffè Ristorante Pasticceria Vittorio Emanuele at Salò (10% off for Touring members), each with its lunch, breakfast, room and full-board prices in lire.
• Consolato Generale (opens in a new tab)

  The ninth list of Corpo Consolare appointments approved by the Administrative Council in its October sittings: Capi Consoli S. A. Stead (London) and Edmond Champion (Geneva); new Consoli including Oreste Bonfanti (Como), Ettore Centa (Treviso), Edoardo Scarfoglio (Napoli) and Luigi Semenza (Messina); dozens of new Vice Consoli across Piedmont, Lombardy, Veneto and Friuli; and the resignations of dott. Renato Craveri (Alba), dott. Adrien Champion and Renzo Giuriani.
• Riparatori raccomandati dal T.C.C.I. (opens in a new tab)

  The new Sezione Tecnica, under avv. Enrico Luzzato, launches its list of recommended bicycle repairers along the road Guida's routes, opening with the Milano-Piacenza-Bologna-Firenze line (naming mechanics such as Luigi Rivetta at Milan and Mazzuccotelli Giuseppe at Melegnano) and continuing over later pages with the Milano-Arona, Milano-Mortara-Casale-Asti, Colico-Dongo, Lecco-Introbio-Tartavalle, Pavia-Abbiategrasso, Lecco-Como-Varese, Milano-Varese-Laveno, Milano-Pavia, Cuneo-Fossano-Bra-Asti and Bergamo-Lovere lines.
• Milano-Pavia-Voghera (opens in a new tab)

  Road-guide supplement entry rating the Milan-Pavia road as good throughout with a tramway running the whole way, recommending the detour to the Certosa di Pavia for its Amadeo, Borgognone and Bambaia artworks, and describing Pavia's university city and castle and Voghera's cathedral, hospital and market square.
• Mortara-Alessandria (opens in a new tab)

  Road-guide supplement entry describing a mediocre and often poor road with the only real climb at Valenza, the crossing of the Po between Torre Beretti and Valenza where sturgeon are still caught, and Alessandria (founded 1168, named for Pope Alexander III) whose Armeria holds relics of the 1796 Napoleonic campaign at Montenotte, Millesimo and Dego and of the battle of Marengo.
• Piacenza-Bologna (opens in a new tab)

  Road-guide supplement entry on the Via Emilia, built by Emilio Lepido in 189 BC, listing contracted hotels at Piacenza, Borgo San Donnino, Reggio Emilia and Bologna and describing Borgo San Donnino's cathedral facade, Parma's Ducal palace, Reggio Emilia's frescoes by Campi and Procaccini, Modena's 90,000-volume Biblioteca Estense, and Bologna's San Petronio and the Asinelli and Garisenda towers.
• Brescia-Verona (opens in a new tab)

  Road-guide supplement entry praising the Brescia-Verona road, describing the long descent from Lonato to Lake Garda past the 1859 battlefields of Solferino, Custoza, Goito and Curtatone, Desenzano's harbour view of the Sirmione peninsula, and Verona's Piazza delle Erbe, the Scaligeri tombs, the Roman Arena and the Adige embankment works.
• Sezione Medica (opens in a new tab)

  Dott. Segrè and Dott. Forlanini report an offer from Ignazio Grün, owner of the Locate Triulzi dairy, of free packets of milk-based chocolate for members to test on long tours and report back on its nutritional and restorative value.
• La gita della Sezione di Lecco (opens in a new tab)

  Report on the Lecco section's Sunday 13 October outing to Chiavenna: about 30 cyclists left Lecco at 6am, were met six kilometres outside Chiavenna by sig. R. Giuriani of the local Veloce Club with sig. Vopra and De-Giacomi, and lunched at the Hotel Conradi, where Lecco Console sig. Cattini proposed a toast with Inferno and Sasella wine; signed "F. G."