Vol 3, No 9

Articles in this issue

• [Comunicato sull'esito della votazione per le modifiche allo Statuto] (opens in a new tab)

  Federico Johnson and secretary G. Lorenzi announce that the postal ballot on the statute amendments closed on 30 September with 3,299 votes cast, a record for an Italian cycling question, only 82 against, so all proposals pass; members are reminded that from 1898 the annual subscription rises to 6 lire (5 plus a new 1-lira postal contribution), or 8 lire including the 2-lira entry fee for new members.
• Deliberazioni del Consiglio (opens in a new tab)

  Minutes of the council's 15 and 30 September 1897 sittings, chaired by Federico Johnson: the Rebeschini firm is reconfirmed as printer of the Rivista for 1898 on better terms, Dott. Favari is tasked with renegotiating the lapsed accident-insurance contract, Como's Deputazione Provinciale permits a cycle path along the Napoleona road to Camerlata at the club's expense, repair kits held by the U.V.I. are recalled, and on 30 September the ballot on the new statute is formally closed and declared carried, taking effect from 1 October.
• Verbale delle operazioni di spedizione e scrutinio delle Schede (opens in a new tab)

  Sindaco Romeo Riva's official record of the ballot's distribution and count: 11,860 slips were stamped and issued, 11,500 enclosed in the July-August Rivista Mensile mailed by the Finetti firm, and on the evening of 30 September the sealed urn was opened to find 3,299 slips, 3,217 in favour and 82 against, more than 400 votes past the quorum required by Article 104.
• Sezione Strade, Diverse (opens in a new tab)

  Luigi Vittorio Bertarelli, head of the Sezione Strade, reports the Italian customs post on the Monfalcone-San Giorgio di Nogaro road moved from Torre Zuino to Treponti (a route he found impractical after a personal mishap crossing with his bicycle) and the Piattamala customs post moved to Tirano, notes the warm reception of the new Guida del Veneto, and thanks lawyer A. Brignone of Pinerolo for surveying the new Pancalieri-Vigone-Pinerolo road for the forthcoming Guida del Piemonte.
• Sezione Comfort (opens in a new tab)

  List, compiled by Comfort section head A. C. Marelli, of hotels and restaurants newly affiliated between 20 August and 20 September 1897, from the Roma at Agordo to establishments at Venice, Perugia and Girgenti, plus a running list of hotels improperly displaying the club's plaque without being properly affiliated, including establishments at Cannobio, Como, Desenzano and Montecatini.
• Consolato Generale, Ventinovesimo Elenco (opens in a new tab)

  The 29th list of Corpo Consolare appointments approved by the council, naming new consuls and vice-consuls including Ing. Giovanni Bernardini Caruana at Valletta, Malta and Dott. Arturo Coletti at Pieve di Cadore, alongside resignations (including Pietro Finocchiaro Crupi at Catania) and the death of vice-consul Giuseppe Mazzola at Vogogna.
• Cancelleria, Allo Spettabile Corpo Consolare (opens in a new tab)

  Circular from the chancellery to the Corpo Consolare restating that membership cards issued from 1 October run to the end of 1898 but do not carry entitlement to publications already issued in 1897, and reminding all 1898 members that Article 8 of the new statute now requires an extra 1 lira postal contribution alongside the annual fee.
• Sezione Movimento, Dogane (opens in a new tab)

  Stanislao Parboni, head of the Sezione Movimento, publishes the complete list of Italian customs posts authorised to grant the club's facilitations to members, from Falcade and Caprile in the Belluno Alps to the Ventimiglia and Modane railway crossings, plus notes on entering Greece (a two-drachma fixed duty) and Spain from France (a deposit of 0.80 pesetas per kilo of machine).
• Candidati inscritti dal 20 Agosto al 20 Settembre 1897 (opens in a new tab)

  Roll of new candidate members enrolled between 20 August and 20 September 1897, organised by province from Alessandria to Vicenza and abroad in Trieste, Trento, Zara, Budapest and Vienna, closing with a recorded total of 310 candidates for the month.
• Errata-Corrige (opens in a new tab)

  Notice from the Direzione Generale striking Giuseppe Battaini of Milan, listed as a new candidate in the June-July issue, from the membership rolls for never having paid his entrance fee and 1897 subscription.
• Nota dei Cartelli Indicatori (opens in a new tab)

  Two running lists of the roadside signposts the club has dispatched and has in progress, donors include Luigi Vittorio Bertarelli at Milan and the Perugia consulate, which alone funded twenty plates, with Segretario Avv. Osvaldo Fioroni lamenting the low take-up nationally, including the poor response to the telegraph-pole scheme agreed with the Post and Telegraph Ministry, despite Perugia and Verona's strong showing.
• Sezione Strade, Inesattezze nelle Levate di Campagna dell'I. G. M. (opens in a new tab)

  Luigi Vittorio Bertarelli publishes a second list of small errors he has found in the Istituto Geografico Militare's 1:50,000 and 1:25,000 field surveys while compiling the club's guides, misprinted spot heights, wrong contour intervals and misspelt place names on sheets covering Friuli, Piedmont, the Veneto and Sicily, offered, he stresses, as a modest tribute to a monumental undertaking, not a complaint.