Vol 2, No 8

Articles in this issue

• Avviso ai Soci (opens in a new tab)

  Warning to members about a man named Perizzi who tours Italy swindling people, posing at Cutigliano (Serravalle Pistoiese) as a former army officer, lawyer and Touring member to obtain permission for a charity lecture, then absconding with the collected funds and leaving the hotel bill and the school janitor unpaid; the council will move to strike him from the membership rolls.
• Un Caso Importante di Interpretazione dello Statuto Sociale (opens in a new tab)

  Director-general F. Johnson and council secretary G. Lorenzi set out the official interpretation of Article 8 of the club statute governing dues for members joining in the October-December quarter, explaining that they keep full membership rights through 1897 but not the right to 1896 publications, and detailing the free 1897 Guida delle Grandi Comunicazioni, the Rivista Mensile for the last quarter, and a special 4.50-lire price offered only at the moment of joining for the back catalogue of Profili and regional guides.
• La Redazione (opens in a new tab)

  Editorial notice asking consuls and members to send any communications, trip reports ("relazioni di gite") or other material intended for the Rivista Mensile to the central office no later than the 20th of each month.
• Consolato Generale (opens in a new tab)

  Seventeenth list of Consular Corps appointments approved by the board on the Capo Console Generale's proposal, naming a new consul for Bellinzona (Italo Farinelli) and vice-consuls across Lombardy, Veneto, Emilia-Romagna and Tuscany, plus a correction noting that Luigi Montanari is in fact full Console, not vice-console, for Ravenna.
• Sezione Strade (opens in a new tab)

  Roads-section head Luigi Vittorio Bertarelli announces despatch of the two-volume, 350-page Guida di Lombardia with its 36 zone index maps and of eight new road profiles (Nos. 7-15), defends his Sempione profile's distances against readers' reports of a discrepancy with the Swiss kilometre stones by citing the 1889 Swiss 1:50,000 general-staff survey, passes on reader Carlo Contini's shorter Milan-Crema route via Paullo and Vito Pardo's tip on riding the firm wet sand of the beach between Terracina and San Felice Circeo, and lists new Istituto Geografico Militare map sheets of use to members.
• Sezione Comfort (opens in a new tab)

  Comfort-section head Marelli A. C. circulates new rules to consuls and hoteliers for granting members a percentage discount off the printed menu or standard prices, to be claimed by showing the membership card only when the bill is settled, and lists recommended hotels and their fixed member tariffs in towns including Ancona, Domodossola, Lugano, Perugia and Primiero.
• Facilitazioni (opens in a new tab)

  List of discounts extended to members by named tradesmen, including 25% off at the Farmacia Sempreviva in Ferrara and 25% off the national tariff from pharmacist Torresani at Parabiago, plus reduced prices from a Bologna mechanic (Umberto Mazzoli), a Verona bookseller for Baedeker guides and military maps, and lake-steamer restaurant discounts arranged by Umberto Richetti of Peschiera.
• Sezione Movimento (opens in a new tab)

  Movement-section head Stanislao Parboni reports that the Italian Finance Ministry has granted foreign-resident members duty-free transit on simple presentation of their card, still requiring the machine to be sealed at the entry customs post and a temporary-import bulletin surrendered on exit, and that Swiss customs likewise waives the deposit and sealing requirement for T.C.C.I. members who present their card.
• Il Convegno di Vicenza (opens in a new tab)

  Report on July's cycling rally at Vicenza, notable for the number of societies represented and for a proposal floated there that the T.C.C.I. admit all members of the Veneto's cycling societies collectively on special terms; the director-general's reply is printed separately in the Parte non Ufficiale.
• Perugia (opens in a new tab)

  The Perugia section, led by console Verdesi, and members of the Veloce Club Perugino make a successful outing to Foligno, where local cyclists led by console Mercurelli Salari host a vermouth reception and a banquet of nearly a hundred at the Albergo della Posta, with a toast read from mayor Barugi and telegrams from cav. Johnson and avv. Sorbi.
• Casale (opens in a new tab)

  Newly appointed vice-console Goffredo Calvi circulates a notice to Casale's cyclists proposing to found a local T.C.C.I. section there to match its sister towns.
• Biblioteca (opens in a new tab)

  Thanks the touring commission of the Unione Velocipedistica Italiana of Turin for sending the club library a copy of its newly published Guida Ciclistica d'Italia.
• Parte non Ufficiale (opens in a new tab)

  Director-general F. Johnson's letter of 10 August 1896 to the Veneto consular corps who attended the Vicenza rally, welcoming the region's growing cycling movement but arguing against the proposal to admit affiliated societies' members collectively at reduced rates, on the grounds that the five-lire fee is already a bare minimum funding an ambitious programme of regional guides, road profiles, a projected national cycling map, free rail carriage of members' machines, and roadside relief posts.
• Notizie Varie (opens in a new tab)

  Reports the founding of a Velo-Club Italiano in Geneva, with officers De Michelis, Andreossi, Restagno, Gianella, Solari, Carazetti and Barbero, to unite Italian expatriate cyclists and assist compatriots passing through the city, and lists T.C.C.I. consuls and affiliated hotels useful to members returning via the Chambéry route at Annecy, Aix-les-Bains, Chambéry and Modane.