Vol 4, No 10

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Rivista Mensile del Touring Club Ciclistico Italiano, Vol 4, No 10 cover

Articles in this issue

  • Tesoreria.
    Treasurer-general Venegoni reminds every full member, per Article 18 of the Statute, to send in their membership renewal before 15 January 1899, payable in cash by registered letter or postal money order to the General Directorate on Via Giulini in Milan.
  • Deliberazioni del Consiglio.
    Minutes of the Council's 5 and 12 October 1898 sittings, chaired by Federico Johnson with Bertarelli, Gorla, Fioroni, Moro, Venegoni, Favari, Marelli and auditors Guasti and Riva present: discussion of a new combined membership card demanded by the Swiss customs directorate in Berne (whose latest reply again refused to recognise the old card), instructions to draft a reciprocity agreement with the Cyclists' Touring Club of London, and, continuing overleaf, approval of the redesigned 1899 tessera, a decision to keep the Rivista's current format but move all advertising after 16 pages of pure text, and Marelli's proposal (rejected on cost grounds) to issue the Annuario twice a year instead of once. Signed by vice-secretary Rag. M. Caspani.
  • Per il libero transito dalla frontiera Svizzera.
    Sezione Movimento head S. Parboni recaps the Touring Club's failed negotiations with the Swiss customs directorate in Berne to keep the existing photo membership card valid, and announces that from 1 January 1899 every member crossing into Switzerland with a bicycle must instead carry a special photo-bearing recognition booklet, available from the Milan office at Via Giulini 2 on payment of 50 centesimi, while the old card remains usable elsewhere.
  • Dogane., Permessi di libero transito.
    Parboni warns members near the border who hold six-month free-transit customs permits that these are valid only for re-entry through the same customs post that issued them; several members who left and returned via a different post have had their permits confiscated, and he says he is writing to the Ministry of Finance to seek either a change in the rule or clearer instructions to border customs offices.
  • I Medici Condotti. Osservazioni pratiche.
    Dott. Favari, head of the Sezione Medica, tabulates the roughly 974 lire a year a rural condotta doctor spends keeping a horse and carriage (hay, farriery, a live-in servant) against just 488 lire for a hired carriage on the roughly 120 wet days plus a 400-lire bicycle the rest of the year, a net saving of 486 lire, citing his own 279 days of cycling the previous year and dismissing objections about professional decorum or physical strain.
  • I nuovi Medici del Touring.
    Roster of newly affiliated Touring Club doctors town by town, including Dott. Francesco De Blasi at Alcamo, Dott. Carlo Dominici at Acquasparta, Dott. Fosco Fosi at Arcidosso and Dott. Arturo Turillazzi at Grosseto.
  • I nuovi Farmacisti del Touring.
    List of newly affiliated Touring Club pharmacies, including the Farmacia Fiore Lorenzo at Arcidosso, the Vivaldi Felice pharmacy at Bardolino, Dott. Bianchi Francesco at Bollate and E. Antonuzzi's Farmacia Popolare in Rome.
  • L'assicurazione contro gl'infortuni ciclistici.
    Notice urging members to take out accident cover before the year is out, since the policy runs a full twelve months and would already cover the coming spring and summer riding season, introducing the reprinted Anonima Italiana Infortuni contract terms that continue at printed p.240.
  • Convenzione fra la Società Touring Club Ciclistico Italiano e la Società Anonima Italiana di Assicurazione contro gli Infortuni.
    Full text of the two-year (1 January 1898 to 31 December 1899) insurance contract between the Touring Club, represented by president Cav. Federico Johnson, and the Società Anonima Italiana di Assicurazione contro gli Infortuni, represented by director Cav. Gioberti Luzzati, setting premiums from L.4.85 for temporary-disability-only cover up to L.10.90 for combined death, permanent invalidity, temporary disability and third-party liability cover, and excluding accidents arising from racing of any kind.
  • Sentenza.
    Text of a 27 October 1898 Piacenza court ruling acquitting eighteen-year-old Giuseppe Clemente Borghi, charged under Article 11 of the 22 July 1897 law for wheeling an unregistered bicycle without brake or bell along Via San Salvatore, on the grounds that a bicycle merely pushed by hand rather than ridden is not "in use" and so incurs none of the law's obligations; signed by magistrate Piccinini.
  • Elenco dei Soci Vitalizi (1) a tutto giugno 1898.
    Numbered roll of the club's life members to June 1898, who under Article 6 of the Statute pay a one-off 100-lire fee, including Cav. Avv. Andrea Baragiola and Comm. G. B. Pirelli of Milan, Principessa Ines Ercolani of Bologna, Luigi Vittorio Bertarelli, president Cav. Uff. Federico Johnson, and Conte Biscaretti di Ruffia, deputy for Turin.
  • Le nuove Tessere pel 1899. La Tessera Sociale.
    Describes the redesigned 1899 membership card, sent only to members already paid up (6 lire renewal or 8 lire for new enrolment), explains that duplicates will no longer normally be issued except for a worn or damaged card on payment of 50 centesimi, and details the new book-style card wallet, sold to members for 50 centesimi, with a pocket for customs papers, rail tickets and a printed extract of the border-crossing rules.
  • La Tessera per la Svizzera.
    Confirms that from 1 January 1899 no Touring Club member may cross into Switzerland with a bicycle without the special photo-bearing recognition booklet obtainable from the Milan office at Via Giulini 2 for 50 centesimi, and asks members to always write their name and address clearly and quote both the enrolment number and the treasurer's control number found on their tessera, over the signature of acting chancellor M. Caspani.
  • Le Pubblicazioni del T.
    Summarises the club's free annual publications to members from 1895 through 1898: the 1895 Guida-Itinerario dell'Italia, the 1896-97 Guida-Itinerario delle Strade di Grande Comunicazione in three volumes, the Annuari of 1896-98, the regional guides to Lombardy, Lazio, Veneto and Piedmont (the last in three volumes with about 827 profiles), thirty-six mountain-road profile monographs issued to date, and the 1:500,000 Veneto map donated by Cav. Johnson to the club's first 10,000 members, with a Guida dell'Umbria and a central-Italy chorographic map announced as forthcoming.
  • Prezzo delle Pubblicazioni del T.
    Price list for back-numbered club publications available to new 1899 members at a discount when ordered with their subscription: profile monographs at 1-2 lire each, the Lombardy guide at 4 lire, the Lazio guide at 3 lire, the three-volume Piedmont guide (about 700 profiles) at 5.50 lire, the 1897 and 1898 Annuari at 1.75 lire each, and the Veneto and Piedmont-Lombardy-Liguria chorographic maps at 2.50 lire each, with a discounted bundle of the whole set offered at 15 lire.
  • Cancelleria.
    Price list of items sold at the club's Milan office against advance payment, including the club badge, bicycle tassel, hotel plaque, publication folders and a 1.25-lire first-aid pack, and announces the new, smaller "Distintivo Mignon" badge at 1.50 lire (2 lire gilt, for consular office-holders), alongside enamelled pins, cufflinks and an aluminium or silver bicycle nameplate, signed by the Cancelliere.
  • Candidati inscritti dal 20 Ottobre al 20 Novembre 1898.
    Province-by-province roll of new candidate members from Alessandria to Venezia, including Donna Margherita Arborio di Gattinara at Sartirana and Avv. Conte Carlo Raggio at Genoa, bringing total membership to 16,940 by 20 November 1898; a second roster on the same pages lists 239 further members enrolling for 1899, including recruits at Trieste, Brissago, Innsbruck, Zurich and as far afield as New York and Boston, closing with gerente-responsabile Francesco Orsi's colophon.