Vol 4, No 12

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Rivista Mensile del Touring Club Ciclistico Italiano, Vol 4, No 12 cover

Articles in this issue

  • La Quota Annuale 1899 di L. 6 deve essere inviata al T. prima del 15 Gennaio.
    Reminder that the L.6 annual 1899 dues must reach the T.C.C.I.'s head office at Via Giulini 2, Milan, by 15 January (in cash, by postcard-vaglia or postal money order), quoting the member's 1898 card number; late payers will be billed via the Corpo Consolare or post office with an added collection fee of 30 centesimi in Milan and 55 outside it, per Article 18 of the Statute. Signed "La Direzione."
  • Avvertenze Importanti.
    Office notices from the Direzione Generale: a month's grace on 1899 dues collection until 15 February, after which a surcharge of L.0.30 (Milan) or L.0.55 (elsewhere) applies; members needing an urgent membership card are told to send payment with a small trimmed photograph for faster turnaround; Capi Consoli and Consoli are asked to send a summary of their consulate's 1898 work for publication in the Rivista; and an apology for delays caused by the season's high volume of new registrations and orders, signed by Vice Secretary M. Caspani.
  • Deliberazioni del Consiglio.
    Minutes of four Council sittings (30 November, 6, 14 and 21 December 1898) chaired by Johnson: approves On. Brunialti's rebuilt Rome consulate of fourteen new consuls including Prince Don Livio Caetani, industrialist Giuseppe Fumaroli and the Duke di Gallese, and names Brunialti Capo Console by acclamation; fixes March 1899 for the Council's general elections under Articles 34 and 64 of the Statute; appoints Johnson and engineer Alberto Riva to the 1900 Torino-Parigi committee alongside Turin's new Capo Console, nobile Capponi Trenca; approves a printing contract with the Ditta Abbiati of Milan for the 1899 Rivista against a L.500 security deposit; and reproduces the Council's formal letter to Milan's assessore Conte Castelbarco asserting members' right to walk bicycles by hand through the public gardens pending the Prefetto's ruling.
  • Sul modo di condurre la bicicletta nelle città.
    Bertarelli adapts a Touring Club Suisse article by A. De Morsier on safe city cycling for Italian conditions: pedestrian complaints and a since-notorious Milan magistrate's ruling mocking the bicycle, Milan's 11,300 taxed machines and the real accident blackspots (tram rails and greasy wet paving rather than the busiest streets), techniques for crossing tram tracks and slippery gutters, Milan's confused left/right overtaking rules that flip at the old customs-gate line now the barriers themselves are gone, bell etiquette, and comparisons with pedestrian discipline in Paris, London, Berlin and Vienna. Signed Capo Sezione Strade Luigi Vittorio Bertarelli.
  • Alberghi e Ristoranti che si affigliarono al T. C. C. I.
    Running list, town by town, of hotels and restaurants newly affiliated to the T.C.C.I.'s Sezione Comfort between 20 December 1898 and 20 January 1899, including the Grand Hotel Alassio, the Vittoria at Alessandria, and houses at Cisano, Florence, Madonna del Pilone, Mirano, Pievepelago, Rocchette, Tricesimo and Vezzano, with member discounts of 10-20%, plus a warning that the only genuinely affiliated hotel at Barcellona (Messina) is Antonino Cotugno's Nuovo, since a rival there displays the T.'s plaque without authorisation.
  • Facilitazioni Diverse ottenute dalla Sezione Comfort dal 20 Dicembre 1898 al 20 Gennaio 1899.
    List of shopkeepers granting Sezione Comfort discounts between 20 December 1898 and 20 January 1899, from Massa Lombarda to Venice, naming firm, address, discount (5-20%) and goods covered, fabrics, haberdashery, gloves and linen, rubber goods, tailoring, and photographic studios and supplies, with notice that M. Hofstadter of Trieste (hosiery/linen) and Adolfo Zironi of Modena (shoemaker) have withdrawn from the scheme. Signed Capo-Sezione Comfort A. C. Marelli.
  • Sezione di Roma.
    The new Rome consulate's first organised outing, 23 December, to Albano, led by On. Brunialti, young Don Livio Caetani and Signorina Bianca Magni, who braved the cold when many members preferred a warm bed; lunch at the Trattoria Alhambra after an aperitif from Brunialti, toasts including verses improvised by Cesare Bertoni, an on-the-spot enrolment of Dr Ferruccio Tolomei as the Touring's physician at Albano, and a reception by assessore Alessio Ronca and his wife.
  • Sezione di Napoli.
    The Naples consulate's 14 January banquet at the Ristorante Ferrari in the Galleria Umberto I, opening its third sporting year, with a first-quarter ride programme to Lago Fusaro, Caserta, Capua and Gragnano and a fuller 1899 calendar including a moonlit ride to Amalfi and a joint Rome-Naples-Palermo tour; also secured, via assessore Conte di Castelmola, the lifting of the ban on cycling along Via Caracciolo, Chiaia and Toledo during the evening passeggiata.
  • Sezione di Bologna.
    The Bologna consulate's year-end report of its 1898 activity: its own Annuario, eight issues of its bulletin Il Touring, the first flag of honour won at the Florence gathering, receptions for visiting Florence and Turin cyclists, a Bologna-Turin ride of over 80 riders joined by Professor Guerrini and three ladies, a Touring festival at Porretta with a football match played by the Florentines, and an anniversary party at the Salone Genesini attended by 187 members.
  • Sezione di Grosseto.
    Notice thanking Console L. Porciatti for the Grosseto section's 18 January charity ball in aid of the town's girls' orphanage.
  • Guida dell'Umbria.
    Bertarelli reports that typesetting of the Umbria guide has finally begun, delayed by the slow arrival at Perugia of maps and technical documents from the offices of Orvieto, Rieti, Terni, Spoleto and Foligno, a delay he says will only improve the guide's accuracy.
  • Carta dell'Italia Centrale.
    The Istituto Geografico Militare is working rapidly on the new Central Italy chorographic map, promised for delivery by the end of February and, once bound, due to be sent to members in April.
  • La Cinta Calliano.
    Bertarelli tests the Calliano anti-seasickness belt, a canvas girdle with a screw-tightened pad pressing the stomach, on a crossing from Siracusa to Valletta and back: an untroubled outward passage, then a violent storm on the return during which over-tightening the belt left him with a sore back and buckle-cuts but no vomiting; he cautiously recommends it to fellow sufferers as a useful palliative.
  • La Tassa Ciclistica nel 1899.
    The Direzione Generale delle Gabelle's official region-by-region, province-by-province list of the 1899 bicycle-tax collection centres across Italy, Piedmont, Liguria, Lombardy, Veneto, Emilia, Tuscany, the Marche, Umbria, Lazio, Abruzzi e Molise, Campania, Puglia, Basilicata, Calabria, Sicily and Sardinia, with Comm. Busca's assurance that the tax office will accommodate suggested additions, and advice that cyclists cut out their own province's list and consuls forward any needed corrections.
  • Le Pubblicazioni del T.
    A survey of the free publications given to members each membership year since 1895: the 1895 Guida-Itinerario dell'Italia; the 1896 three-volume Grande Comunicazione guide, Annuario and two-volume Lombardy guide; the 1897 Lazio guide (352 profiles) and three-volume Veneto guide (550 profiles), plus a Veneto chorographic map that Cav. Johnson gave to the first 10,000 members; and the 1898 three-volume, 827-profile Piedmont guide, with the Piedmont-Lombardy-Liguria map and the Guida dell'Umbria still in preparation. Membership costs L.6 a year plus a L.2 entrance fee, or L.100 for life.
  • Prezzo delle Pubblicazioni del T.
    Price list for back-catalogue T.C.C.I. publications, at 50% discount to members: individual road profiles from Bologna-Pistoia to Castrovillari-Lagonegro at 1-2 lire each, the regional guides (Grande Comunicazione L.5, Lombardy L.4, Lazio L.3, Veneto and Piedmont L.5.50 each), the Annuari at L.1.75, and the Veneto and Piedmont-Lombardy-Liguria maps at L.2.50, with a bundled rate for new 1899 members buying the whole back run at once.
  • Cancelleria.
    Price list of club regalia sold at the Milan head office against advance payment, the L.1 Distintivo Sociale badge, a bicycle tassel, a hotel plaque, folders for the profile and Rivista collections, a leather membership-card case, a first-aid pack, and enamelled silver and gold pins, brooches and cufflinks ranging from L.2 to L.40.
  • Distintivi Mignon.
    Announces the new, smaller Distintivo Mignon badge on sale to members at L.1.50, with a gilt version for consular office-holders at L.2, alongside the existing full-size L.1 badge.
  • Statistica e Situazione Numerica dei Soci del T. C. C. I.
    Membership tally to 31 December 1898: 16,956 total registrations, less 278 timely resignations, 757 members referred to legal collection for arrears, 83 struck off, 87 deceased and 336 moved abroad or untraceable, leaving 15,415, plus 449 new registrations for 1899 received between October and December 1898, for an effective active total of 15,864.
  • Candidati inscritti dal 18 a tutto il 31 Dicembre e che optarono pel 1898.
    Final short roll of eight members who joined between 18 and 31 December 1898 opting for that year, including Oscar Beer of Genoa, Carlo Cametti and Conte Curzio Catucci of Rome, Cav. Francesco Innorta of Siracusa and Augusto Jona of Canale, bringing the 1898 total from 16,948 to 16,956.
  • Inscritti dal 18 al 31 Dicembre 1898 e che optarono pel 1899.
    Roll of 116 members registering for 1899 between 18 and 31 December 1898, province by province from Brescia to Vicenza, including a large Parma contingent of over fifty names, plus an Estero section from Trieste, Antibes and Gorizia to Johannesburg and Mooderfontein in the Transvaal, bringing the cumulative 1899 total to 449.