Vol 3, No 6

Articles in this issue

• Risultato del Ricorso alla Giunta Provinciale Amministrativa di Milano (opens in a new tab)

  Reports the Giunta Provinciale Amministrativa's 26 May 1897 ruling, credited to rapporteur Ing. Alberto Riva, rejecting Milan's new cycling-circulation regulation as excessively restrictive and referring it back to the Comune for revision; publishes the ruling's full text and the Council's letter of thanks, plus the Consiglio Direttivo's own reply of 8 July.
• Deliberazioni del Consiglio (opens in a new tab)

  Minutes of two June 1897 Council sittings: a proposed regulation for organised cycling processions, deferral of Lieutenant Natali's military-section proposal to 1898, Bertarelli's reprinted Grandi Comunicazioni guide with 1500 km of new lines and the Sicily addition, renewed efforts to reinstate Albasini-Scrosati as Legal Section head, and a memorandum to the government on the proposed cycle tax and unified circulation regulation.
• Memoriale diretto ai Deputati al Parlamento Nazionale in Ordine alla Tassa Ciclistica (opens in a new tab)

  Circular sent to Ministers Prinetti and Branca, the bill's rapporteur Gualtierotti and about fifty deputy-members, arguing the proposed national bicycle tax bill should set a lower rate proportionate to working-class means, tax pneumatic- and solid-tyre machines in separate categories, drop the municipal taxpayer roll, prorate the levy for mid-year purchases, and cap the informer's share of fines at one third.
• [Ricorso del T.C.C.I. alla IV Sezione del Consiglio di Stato contro la tassa e il regolamento di Milano] (opens in a new tab)

  Full text of Johnson, Riva and Edoardo Eliseo Porro's formal appeal to the Council of State against Milan's 7 January and 30 April 1897 resolutions imposing a L. 15 cycling licence, arguing the tax exceeds the city's statutory taxing powers under the Legge Comunale e Provinciale and cannot be justified as a vehicle tax, an area-occupation tax or a disguised police regulation.
• Sezione Comfort (opens in a new tab)

  Lists hotels newly affiliated between 20 May and 20 June 1897, and warns members that some hotels display the Touring plaque without being properly affiliated, listing only those confirmed in the 1897 Annuario and the Rivista since March.
• L'Annuario (opens in a new tab)

  Comfort-section head A. C. Marelli asks members to send corrections and additions to the yearbook directly to him, publishing two reader-submitted corrections (Stuttgart's country listing, a defunct Milan cycling society).
• Sezione Strade (opens in a new tab)

  Bertarelli reviews new touring guides: a 60-page Chiavenna-Spluga-Maloja-Engadina guidebook, the T.C.F.-backed Savoie itineraries with gradient profiles, the Touring Club de France's Guide Routier du Nord (praised for detail, criticised for its gradient-only altitude notation), and the German A.R.U.'s sixth Tourenbuch edition.
• Sezione Biblioteca (opens in a new tab)

  Librarian T. E. Magnasco acknowledges two donated works, Nei Paesi dell'Islam and the Guida dell'Alto Monferrato, thanking the Caffaro journalist G. Rossi.
• Pali indicatori (opens in a new tab)

  Detailed instructions for members requesting signposts: secure the site's permission first from the comune or provincial authority, submit a sketch showing wording and arrow direction, note whether the plate mounts on a pole or wall, and describes a switch from cast-iron to lighter sheet-metal plates and locally sourced wooden poles to cut costs.
• Consolato Generale. Ventiseiesimo Elenco (opens in a new tab)

  Twenty-sixth list of Consular Corps appointments approved on 28 May and 20/30 June 1897, including a new consul in New York, Julius S. Klous.
• La teoria della Cinta (opens in a new tab)

  Ferdinando Bezzi's physics explainer of the "cinta," a leather belt hooked to the handlebars that lets a climbing cyclist's arms brace rather than pull, substituting a stronger, more durable force for the rider's own arm strength on steep gradients.
• Sezione Movimento (opens in a new tab)

  Parboni renews urgent appeals to members to have their bicycles' re-export properly certified at the frontier customs office, warning that repeated lapses jeopardise the concessions already won from foreign customs authorities.
• Pei ciclisti che percorrono la Camerlata-Como (opens in a new tab)

  Reports Como consul Bonfanti's warning that 8-10 road-wardens now patrol the pedestrian-only Camerlata-Como avenue issuing 15-20 fines a weekend to cyclists, and describes efforts with the Deputazione Provinciale to improve the roadside verge as an alternative.
• Dogane Austriache (opens in a new tab)

  Notes members were refused promised transit concessions at the Austrian frontier because customs officers there had not yet received instructions and membership-card samples from Vienna, and reports the section has pressed the authorities to issue them.
• Servizio Bagni e Terme (opens in a new tab)

  Favari lists dozens of spas, baths and climatic resorts across Italy offering members discounts of 10-50% on production of the 1897 card and photograph, from Andorno to Varazze.
• Servizio farmaceutico (opens in a new tab)

  Thanks consuls who have proposed local pharmacists for the forthcoming Guida Sanitaria and asks the rest to send their proposals before the end of July.
• Pacco di medicazioni del Touring (opens in a new tab)

  Favari reports strong sales of the first-aid kit, calling it indispensable for any cycling tour or alpine excursion.
• Cancelleria (opens in a new tab)

  Full price list of items sold at headquarters: badges, plates, folders, the first-aid kit, and enamelled pins and cufflinks, with ordering and shipping terms.
• Candidati (opens in a new tab)

  List of new candidate members enrolled between 20 May and 20 June 1897, organised by province with a foreign section led by Trentino and Trieste, closing with two new life members (Piero Gavazzi, Achille Binda) and a total of 601 new members for the month.