Vol 3, No 4

Articles in this issue

• Prenotazioni per la Carta del Veneto (opens in a new tab)

  Explains the free Veneto map (1:500,000, four colours) commissioned from the Istituto Geografico Militare, available printed on hemp paper or, for L. 1, cloth-mounted in a pocket slipcase, with pre-orders for the mounted edition open until end of May.
• Convegno Ciclistico di Milano (opens in a new tab)

  Circular from the Direzione Generale to the Consular Corps announcing the May 1897 Milan gathering welcoming the Rome cyclists' return visit after 1895, with a detailed three-day programme (22-24 May): a Lodi excursion, the Triennale art exhibition and San Siro horse races, a Lake Como steamer trip to Bellagio, a banquet and a Veloce Club soirée, plus fourteen general rules on tickets, registration and machine storage.
• Deliberazioni del Consiglio (opens in a new tab)

  Minutes of three Council sittings (31 March, 21 April, 14 April 1897): approval of the Johnson map-gift announcement, the Milan May reception programme, payment of a Swiss customs fine while seeking reimbursement from the members concerned, Piero Favari's appointment as head of the Medical Section after Segrè's resignation, and posting of notices urging cyclists to keep to the left under Milan's new police regulation.
• Sezione Comfort (opens in a new tab)

  Lists hotels and restaurants newly affiliated between 20 March and 20 April 1897, and repeats the request that members and innkeepers enclose return postage with enquiries to the Comfort section.
• Per la Roma-Milano (opens in a new tab)

  Bertarelli reports sending copies of a special mountain-section road profile for the Rome-Milan cycling caravan's route to the organizing committee and towns along the way, on sale at L. 1 (L. 0.90 in person) while stocks last.
• Carta del Veneto (opens in a new tab)

  Bertarelli describes sending the Istituto Geografico Militare the completed Veneto map original, with his own dense addition of roads from the regional guide, and explains the map's purpose is precision on the routes it shows rather than exhaustive local detail.
• Guida del Veneto (opens in a new tab)

  Progress report: topographic and demographic description finished, the 26 zone maps and their traced routes complete, some 2,500 place names being hand-lettered, roughly 2,200 letters and 7,000 questionnaires exchanged with correspondents, profiles drawn by Alessandro Scagnolari under Ing. Vanzetti's supervision, and about fifty workers now engaged in typesetting, zincography and binding.
• Aggiunte alla Guida delle Grandi Comunicazioni (opens in a new tab)

  Bertarelli assesses the new Sicily supplement (30 main routes) added to the reprinted Grandi Comunicazioni guide, criticising the Istituto Geografico Militare's old Sicilian survey as unreliable for altitudes and railway crossings while praising the fresh road-condition data as a first for the island, and notes about fifty further mainland routes gained new condition notes in this reprint.
• Strade (opens in a new tab)

  Compares the three Apennine passes between Bologna and Florence: Porretta (133 km), the steep Futa (100 km) and the newly opened Montepiano (116 km), recommending Montepiano to cyclists for its easier gradients and comparable scenery.
• Appunti alla Guida del Lazio (opens in a new tab)

  Corrections to the Lazio guide from correspondents Vito Pardo, Luigi Casazza and Cavalier Cancellieri: a missing side-road near Cesano, swapped route numbers near Fiumicino, restricted access to Castel Porziano, an infected spring near Bracciano, and sulphur springs near Manziana.
• Contributo all'aggiornamento delle levate al 25.000 dell'Istituto Geografico Militare (opens in a new tab)

  Announces a new arrangement, via the club's Milan office only, for members' corrected 1:25,000 or 1:50,000 map sheets to be exchanged free for updated ones once verified, prompted by Count Vittorio Cavazzocca dei Mazzanti's discovery that some third-class dirt roads are wrongly shown as metalled on the latest survey sheets.
• Consolato Generale. Ventiquattresimo Elenco (opens in a new tab)

  Twenty-fourth list of Consular Corps appointments approved between 24 March and 21 April 1897, including Giuseppe Lanza di Scalea as head consul for Palermo, plus resignations and a correction of vice-console Pirola of Arona's first name to Giuseppe.
• Sezione movimento. Dogane (opens in a new tab)

  Parboni reports the Swiss customs dispute over unreported bicycle re-exports settled: rather than the full duty, Switzerland accepted a flat L. 2-per-bicycle fine under the customs law, and members concerned are asked to reimburse the club.
• Assicurazione contro gli Infortunii Ciclistici (opens in a new tab)

  Repeats the five accident-insurance tiers open to members, from L. 2.75 for basic temporary-disability cover to L. 6.75 for combined death, disability and third-party liability.
• I primi effetti dell'Assicurazione (opens in a new tab)

  Reports the insurance scheme's first real payout: member Porlezza, injured falling into Milan's dry Naviglio canal while cycling, was promptly paid the L. 5-a-day indemnity by the club's insurer for the length of his recovery.
• Servizio terme, bagni, stazioni climatiche, farmacie (opens in a new tab)

  Invites the Consular Corps to negotiate discounts with local pharmacies, spas and climatic resorts, capping numbers per town and offering a diploma and Rivista advertising to participants.
• Al Corpo Consolare (opens in a new tab)

  Direct appeal to every consul to establish the pharmacy and spa discount service in their town as both a member benefit and a propaganda tool for recruiting new members.
• Servizio medico (opens in a new tab)

  Explains the medical corps is being built out cautiously, targeting 1,200 doctors for 1897 at L. 3 each in badge, diploma and journal costs, and asks consuls to leave appointment decisions to headquarters rather than pressing favoured candidates.
• Il pacchetto di medicazione del Touring (opens in a new tab)

  Announces a compact first-aid kit made up by Dr. Leopoldo Zambelletti's Milan firm to replace the club's repair-box medical stock, listing its contents (Mayor triangular bandage, sublimate cotton, styptic compress, gauze, plasters, pins, antiseptic tablets) and its L. 1.25 price to members.
• Posta della sezione medica (opens in a new tab)

  Piero Favari's short replies to individual consuls and doctors in Venice, Ferrara, Nova, Messina, Catania, Lodi, Vittuone, Francavilla and Borgosesia on badge dispatch, duplicate appointments and pharmacy discount negotiations.
• [Chiarimento della Direzione Generale sul regolamento di circolazione a Milano] (opens in a new tab)

  Clarifies that the Direzione Generale only reviewed and partly influenced, but did not approve, Milan's new municipal cycling regulation or its legality, and is exploring legal challenges to the tax that could also benefit cyclists in other Italian comuni.
• Candidati (opens in a new tab)

  List of new candidate members enrolled between 20 March and 20 April 1897, spanning Italy and abroad including Vienna, London, Munich and Geneva.
• Soci individuali dell'U.V.I. passanti al T. 4.° Elenco (opens in a new tab)

  Fourth list of individual Unione Velocipedistica Italiana members transferring into the Touring club.
• Soci del Veloce Club Veneziano. 3.° Elenco (opens in a new tab)

  Third roster of Veloce Club Veneziano members joining the Touring club.
• Veloce Club Mestre. 2.° Elenco (opens in a new tab)

  Second, single-name list of Veloce Club Mestre members joining the Touring club.