Rivista Mensile del Touring Club Italiano, Vol 16, No 7
Articles in this issue
- Illustrated account of the Touring's May 1910 caravan to Sicily for the fiftieth anniversary of Garibaldi's landing: the steamer Sicilia sailing from Genoa on 23 May with 101 surviving Mille, 273 V.C.A. cyclist volunteers from 24 riparti and some 250 so-called ferrovieri, the disembarkation at Marsala, the carts to Segesta, the oration at the Calatafimi ossuary that ended in G. C. Abba's embrace, and the unveiling at Palermo of Antonio Ugo's monument to the Unity of Italy.
- Comm. Teresio Borsalino, of the Alessandria hat firm Borsalino Giuseppe e Fratello, gives L. 15 000 for a three-year cycle of lantern-slide lectures; at its 8 June sitting the Council creates the Fondazione T. Borsalino per conferenze di propaganda per il bosco e per il pascolo, votes him a targa d'onore and hands the scheme to the Commissione Nazionale di propaganda under L. V. Bertarelli.
- The Council links two events: the 30 June meeting at Trento with the Società degli Alpinisti Tridentini (Cesarini-Sforza, Scotoni, Stanchina, Tambosi, Cesare Battisti) settling Italian-only names across the nine Trentino capitanati, Italian with the German in brackets from Bolzano down to Salorno and Ladin usage in Badia and Gardena for the coming Carta d'Italia sheets; and the ballot in which only 275 votes backed the Trieste protest candidature of the former capo console.
- At the VII Congresso Geografico Italiano, opened at Palermo on 1 May, the Touring gave every delegate a folder holding the seven 1:250 000 Sicily sheets of its Carta d'Italia; the congress president prof. Cosimo Bertacchi named Bertarelli a vice-president of honour and had him chair a sitting of Section IV on historical geography, cartography and toponymy.
- Silio Carpani sets the Palio of Siena against the Gran Premio Ambrosiano and the Anglo-French jargon of modern racing: the mock battle in piazza San Giorgio after Montaperti, the Elmora, the Pugna and the buffalo races, horses drawn by lot for the Contrade from 1650, the Modena Palio in Lancillotto's chronicle of 1549, Asti's three silk banners offered to San Secondo, the barberi races suppressed by the government in 1884, and the Savoy caroselli at Turin in 1839, 1842 and 1868.
- The decennial Passion Play of the Bavarian Ammer valley, vowed after the plague and first given in 1634: Anton Lang as Christ, the painter Johann Zwink playing Judas for a third time with his daughter Attilia as Mary, burgomaster Sebastian Bauer as Pilate, Maria Mayr's first Magdalene, Jacob Rutz the smith leading the chorus, and more than 600 villagers on stage before an orchestra sunk beneath the proscenium.
- Nine-photograph page of the Istrian provincial exhibition: the entrance, the maritime section pavilion, the galleries and kiosks, the sports and tourism hall, the agricultural machinery hall, the contemporary art gallery, the view over the gulf, the arrival of guests at the opening and the exhibition's poster.
- Icilio Bianchi, writing from Brussels, on the 1910 world's fair beside the Bois de la Cambre: Bruxelles-Kermesse with its faro, geuze-lambic and salted scholl, the Antwerp pavilion rebuilt from Rubens's own drawings, and the Italian section by Marcello Piacentini, Augusto Sezanne and Galileo Chini, where the Touring's stand shows membership statistics and its 58-sheet Carta d'Italia at 1:250 000, and the copy of Michelangelo's David wears a fig leaf imposed by the Belgian committee.
- Rag. Sandro Vimercati reports for the Touring's Commissione di Turismo Nautico on drifting down the Po from Turin to Pavia in a five-quintal flat-bottomed barge with Venetian rowlocks built by the Società Canottieri Olona, with Emilio Gavirati, Attilio Granada, De Rossi and Wagner — a reconnaissance of the shallows before the caravan planned on the Po and the sea for the 1911 Feste Cinquantenarie.
- Italo Bonardi visits the works between Sonnino and Formia: six of the seven kilometres of the Monte Orso tunnel (7 522 m) already bored but threatened by a newly discovered cavern, the Vivola tunnel (7 480 m) only one kilometre in and the Massico not begun, on a 210-km line voted at 120 million lire in 1903 by on. Zanardelli and now promised in five years, running past Ninfa, Fossanuova and Terracina across the Pontine marshes.
- Fourteen-picture news page: Latham's virage and his race with Dickson at the Rouen meeting, the wreck of the baroness de Laroche's biplane, Warchalowski flying with a young woman at Budapest, the Zeppelin VII Deutschland and its Düsseldorf hangar, Morane carrying two passengers on a Blériot, the Tsar of Bulgaria congratulating lieutenant Féquant on the Paris-Vincennes flight, and Hamilton's New York-Philadelphia flight of 13 June on a Curtiss.
- Matilde Serao's instalment of Nuove lettere di una viaggiatrice, datelined Alta Engadina, estate: the nine-hour post-coach climb from Chiavenna through Vicosoprano to St. Moritz, and the foreign motorists who must leave their cars at Como because the Canton Grigioni bars them, while she defends the slow, small-stage way of travelling.
- La Direzione's obituary of prof. dott. Gino Ambrogio Mori, dead at 29, free lecturer in paediatric clinic at Florence and a contributor to the Rivista, author of Il cervello dell'automobile, Il primo turismo, Le scuole all'aria aperta and La malinconia d'una carta geografica, and writer of the monthly hygiene notes signed Il Medico del Touring.
- Picture page: a reservist officer reporting to barracks by monoplane, Robl the former cycling champion killed at Breslau on 18 June in an aeroplane crash, the new Requillard monoplane, and the remains of the Zeppelin VII Deutschland in the Teutoburg forest after the disaster of 28 June.
- The first International Conference on Aerial Navigation opened in Paris on 18 May with delegates of 18 states: Millerand's address and ambassador Tittoni's reply, Louis Renault elected president, four commissions under Kriege, C. Lardy and comm. Bodrero, and the report by prof. G. E. Buzzati of Pavia carried by the Touring's delegate cap. cav. Cesare Dal Fabbro on registration, pilots' brevets, ships' papers, landing signals and customs treatment of airships.
- The monthly news roundup opens with the loss of the Zeppelin Deutschland in the storm of 28 June, the argument in Le Temps over how to pronounce Paulhan, ten. Savoia's 25-minute flight from Centocelle to Vigna di Valle on a Farman, Dickson's winning 748 km at Rouen, Guido Rey elected president of the Club Alpino Italiano on 12 June, and the dispute between Svoronos and Milani over whether the Fanciulla d'Anzio is Manto or the Fortuna Anziate.
- New and subsidised motor services: Palagonia to Scordia station for post and passengers, Genova-Torriglia, favourable rulings for Treia-Macerata and Terni-Visso-Tolentino-Camerino, Schio-Rovereto and Schio-Rovegno, Gattorna-Genova by Recco and Chiavari, an urban line at Trieste from the Caffè Fabris, Belluno-Pieve-San Vito di Cadore, and Canicattì-Sommatino-Riesi.
- The Chamonix-Montenvers rack railway, 5.5 km at 80 to 219 per mille, cutting the Mer de Glace excursion to 50 minutes and 12 lire return against 20 by mule; Brennan's gyroscopic monorail tested at Gillingham in Kent; the Cape-to-Cairo scheme; the Bernina line from Tirano to St. Moritz nearing completion on 750-volt current from Campocologno; Chambless's Road Town; and the 1 200-km narrow-gauge network proposed for Basilicata and Calabria.
- Fabio Majnoni's motor-boating column: the Dover-Ostend race and cruise on to Bruges, Ghent, Antwerp and Brussels organised by the Yacht Club d'Ostende with the Motor Yacht Club de Belgique and the British Motor Boat Club, the Kiel regattas, three English challengers for the British International Trophy at Huntington, and the Coppa d'Italia kept by France when Cambiaso's Gian Maria lost by seconds to Colette at Nice.
- Submarine acoustic bells now warn shipping from 52 stations in the United States, 17 in Great Britain and others in Canada, France and Scandinavia, with 593 steamers fitted but no Italian station or vessel; the Allan Line orders two 20 000-ton turbine ships for Canada, Cunard builds the Franconia, and the Suez Canal concession is renewed with a widening and lower tariffs.
- Road warnings to members: the Camerlata-San Rocco traverse in the province of Como in bad condition, the masonry bridge over the Olona at Corteolona closed in favour of a timber one, the Vicenza-Bassano road obstructed by the Noventa tramway works, fresh coarse gravel on the Ampezzo-Forni di Sotto variant, and transit through the Passo della Morte works allowed only in four fixed periods of the day.
- Reviews of Mita on the long-distance transmission of electric current, the De Agostini 1:400 000 maps of the Kingdom's postal communications in eleven sheets, the Almanacco Alpino Italiano 1911 sold by the C.A.I. student section to pay for the Rifugio Roma given to the Alpinisti Tridentini, Coopmans's Guida Generale di Milano with its 75-map atlas, the T.C.F.'s Le ski utilitaire, and Trevelyan's Garibaldi e i Mille in Emma Bice Dobelli's translation.
- Books presented to the Touring: Rotella on emphyteusis, Tinivella on La Rochefoucauld, Luigi Natoli's La rivoluzione siciliana del 1860 and the companion Documenti e memorie, the Annuaire du Touring Club Suisse 1910, Cercignani's Vade-mecum dell'automobilista, Cadolini's Le strade ordinarie, the Svenska turistföreningens årsskrift 1910 and the annuals of the Club Escursionisti Napoletani and the Automobile Club de Nice.
- From 1 August 1910 provisional tax vouchers lapse and no bicycle, motorcycle or car may use public roads without the prescribed immovable metal disc fixed to the steering tube — between the two crossbars on cycles, under the wheel on cars; communes exchange vouchers for cycle and motorcycle discs and registry offices for car discs, and offenders pay a fine of twice the tax.
- Under the regulation of 29 July 1909 cars in circulation must hold a new licence by October: numbered plates front and rear at least 40 cm from the ground, each figure in relief in a 10 by 6 cm rectangle with one-centimetre strokes, two independent brakes, a single deep-toned horn, two clear front lamps and a rear lamp showing white on the plate and red to the road; the Touring supplies plates at L. 3 plus 75 centesimi postage.
- Council and Direzione business: avv. cav. uff. Felice Radice of Forza e Coraggio co-opted as councillor; Bertarelli's memoir on cartography for air navigation at the Verona congress and cap. Cesare Dal Fabbro's mission to the Paris conference; ing. Gola representing the Touring at the Brussels road congress; deputy ing. Paolo Bignami added to the Rome parliamentary delegation; and conte Orazio Oldofredi's 5 000-lire prize for the Anzio-Rome cruisers race closing the 1911 Crociera.
- The auditors' record of the count made at the Touring's headquarters on 4 July 1910 before sen. Cesare Saldini: 2 202 voters, 2 128 approving the 1909 balance sheet and 73 against; Badini, Barutta, Belotti, Johnson, Guastalla and Moro elected councillors for 1910-12, with Magnocavallo, Soffredi and Turrini as auditors, against 278 and 276 votes for the protest candidates Tevini and Sottocorona.
- The signpost subscription rises from L. 71 290,75 to L. 72 760,75 with gifts from the Genio Civile of Palermo and Chieti, the provincial deputations of Cuneo, Milan, Vicenza and Ascoli Piceno and the municipalities of Udine, Parma, Vernante, Trana and Paesana; 5 286 signs subscribed to 31 May 1910.
- Five new benemeriti — Ercole Biotto of Occhieppo Inferiore, ten. Giuseppe Cirincione of Turin, Ambrogio Dragoni of Mortara, Benito Pizzigoni of Milan and sac. dott. Elia Razeto of Bogliasco — bringing the total to 1 668.
- New five-year members from Bengasi, Milan, Cellatica, Parma, the Principality of Monaco, Rosario Santa Fé, Messina, Zurich, Forte dei Marmi, Buenos Ayres and Trieste, among them cav. Vincenzo Bernabò, ing. Giuseppe Buscaglione of Turin and march. Ferdinando Zizzi of Naples.
- Candidates who applied for membership between 1 and 31 May 1910: life members at Asunción, Brookline, Cagliari, Camogli, Concepción, Mexico City, Paris, São Paulo, Santiago, Trieste and Valparaíso, then annual members listed province by province from Alessandria and Ancona through Bergamo, Lecce, Livorno, Novara, Reggio Emilia, Rome and Turin to foreign residents in Monaco, Berlin, Folkestone, London, Antivari, Moscow and the Swiss cantons.