Vol 4, No 3

Articles in this issue

• Verbale dell'Assemblea Generale dei Soci del T. tenutasi il giorno 27 marzo 1898. (opens in a new tab)

  Minutes of the T.C.C.I.'s AGM held 27 March 1898 at the Veloce Club Milan under acting president ing. Francesco Capei (Florence consul), opening with Johnson's tribute to the late secretary Lorenzi; approves the 1897 Bilancio (revenue L.81,079.71, expenditure L.66,412.89) and the Direttore Generale's and auditors' reports, and debates four Turin Congress themes including a proposal, resisted by avv. Pizzagalli and clarified by Johnson and Bertarelli, to drop "Ciclistico" from the club's name.
• Verbale delle operazioni di spedizione e scrutinio delle Schede della votazione. (opens in a new tab)

  Rag. R. Riva's certified account of how the ballot was distributed and will be counted: the Rebeschini press delivered 13,500 copies of the February-March Rivista with the voting slip attached and specially stamped, 13,000 handed to the Finetti firm for posting (8,717 within Italy, 1,205 abroad, 3,078 to Milan members) and 500 held back for members who wrote in, with the ballot box and its key sealed pending the 27 May count.
• Programma del Convegno di Torino, 9-12 Giugno 1898. (opens in a new tab)

  Finalised programme for the 9-12 June 1898 Turin gathering: a Vermouth d'onore reception, the members' Congress, a wreath-laying at the Piazza Castello monument to the wars of independence, a visit to the Exhibition, a banquet at the Swiss shooting-range cellar, and a funicular excursion to Superga, open to all cyclists for a 1-lira badge fee plus a 10-lira participation fee, with registration due to cashier Ercole Abrate by 30 May.
• Importante. (opens in a new tab)

  Stanislao Paeboni details the two customs formalities members keep forgetting, declaring temporary export before leaving Italy with a bicycle, and having its re-export logged at the frontier customs office on return, explaining how skipping either forces the rider, or the club, to pay import duty, and promising the full rules will be reprinted in the coming Annuario.
• Dogane Svizzere. (opens in a new tab)

  Notice that laissez-passer issued by Swiss customs offices between 1 July and 31 December 1897 expire on 30 June 1898, and holders must present themselves and the bicycle named on the document at any Swiss frontier post to have its re-export logged and receive the stamped coupon proving compliance.
• Il primo processo sul nuovo Regolamento ciclistico. (opens in a new tab)

  Full text of the Vercelli Pretura's ruling, by Pretore Marco Perosa on 6 April 1898, acquitting Touring consul avv. Luigi Bozino of riding his bicycle on a plane-tree avenue: it holds the new national cycling law and regulation of 22 July and 16 December 1897 superseded every earlier municipal by-law, and that the regulation's ban on avenues reserved for pedestrians or saddle-horses in parks and public gardens did not extend to an ordinary tree-lined road.
• Sezione Medica. (opens in a new tab)

  Short notices from the Medical Section: every doctor and pharmacist proposed by the consuls has been accepted, so further offers should pause; badges for affiliated practitioners are being prepared; and the accident-insurance contract with the Società Anonima Infortuni (Via Bassano Porrone 8, Milan) was renewed last December with minor changes.
• Convenzione fra la Società Touring Club Ciclistico Italiano e la Società Anonima Italiana di Assicurazione contro gl'Infortuni. (opens in a new tab)

  Full two-year (1898-99) accident-insurance agreement, signed 28 December 1897 by Director General Federico Johnson for the Touring and director Gioberti Luzzati for the insurer, covering members aged 18-60 against cycling accidents only (racing excluded) at premiums from L.4.85 for temporary disability alone up to L.10.90 for death, permanent disability, temporary disability and third-party liability combined.
• Convegno touristico di Firenze indetto dalla Sezione Fiorentina del T. C. C. I. (opens in a new tab)

  Day-by-day account of the rain-soaked 16-17 April 1898 Florence gathering held for the Vespucci-Toscanelli centenary under Mayor Marchese Torrigiani: Bolognese Audax riders stranded at Castiglion dei Pepoli in improvised sack capes, Johnson's evening arrival and the flower-decked Alhambra vermouth reception, sporting games at the Cascine judged by the Patronesse ladies, and the closing banquet with toasts from Capei, Sandoni, Cap. Pizzini for the Velocipedistica Romana and a poem read by prof. Del Greco.
• Convegno di Quinzano d'Oglio del 10 Aprile. (opens in a new tab)

  Report on the well-attended Quinzano d'Oglio gathering of Sunday 10 April, organised by local consul Gino Locatelli with prof. Primo Lanzoni, hosted at cav. Vertua's palazzo, drawing some 300 cyclists to a 150-cover lunch in the town theatre with toasts from Mayor Vertua and consul Cottarelli.
• Il Convegno Ciclistico di Lugano. (opens in a new tab)

  The Velo Club di Lugano's gathering for the Ticino independence centenary drew roughly 400 cyclists from Milan, Bellinzona, Locarno, Biasca, Como, Monza, Gallarate, Luino, Chiari, Varese and Lecco, with flags and wreaths distributed on the Piazza della Riforma and the T.C.C.I. represented by Consul General Gorla, avv. Guasti and rag. Caspani.
• Elenco dei Soci Vitalizi al 20 aprile 1898. (opens in a new tab)

  Roll of the club's life members, each having paid a one-off L.100 under Article 6 of the Statute, including avv. Andrea Baragiola, Comm. G. B. Pirelli, Principessa Ines Hercolani, Luigi Vittorio Bertarelli, Federico Johnson and the Prince of Bourbon-Parma.
• Elenco del Corpo Consolare pel triennio 1898-1900. (opens in a new tab)

  New consular appointments by Council resolution of 20 April 1898, Ugo Bertelli promoted Capo Console at Livorno, new consuls from Aglié to Terranova di Sicilia including six for Turin, plus resignations and a correction noting Lieutenant Umberto Rocca's earlier-omitted appointment as consul for Parma.
• Alberghi e Ristoranti che si affigliarono al T. C. C. I. (opens in a new tab)

  Running list, town by town from Asciano to Villafranca Piemonte, of hotels and restaurants newly affiliated to the Comfort Section between 20 February and 20 April 1898, with member discounts, plus notice that the Giglio hotel in Florence cut its room rate and the Posta hotel at Gualdo Tadino was struck off.
• Facilitazioni Diverse ottenute dalla Sezione Comfort dal 20 Febbraio al 20 Aprile 1898. (opens in a new tab)

  List of four shopkeepers, in Alessandria, Brescia, Geneva and Sciacca, newly granting Comfort Section discounts on optics, hats, watches and barbering, with a note that the Milan photographic supplier Oscar Pettazzi limits its 20% discount to its own-brand cameras.
• Touring Club de France. (opens in a new tab)

  News from Paris that the Automobile-Club committee has accepted M. Berlier's resignation as director-general of the forthcoming Tuileries motor exhibition, replacing him with M. Rives, and describes the 20,000-square-metre exhibition's planned monumental staircase, Touring-Club and Automobile-Club salons, and rooftop restaurant.
• Egregi Consoli. (opens in a new tab)

  Detailed guidance for consuls and members on requesting the club's warning posts and danger signs, how to judge a genuinely dangerous descent or junction, wording limited to two roads per sign, and the postal-telegraph pole convention's technical rules (zinc plates no larger than 70x40cm, a 50-centime annual fee per plate, wooden poles about 4m long), continuing the series begun in the 1896-97 issues.
• Candidati inscritti dal 20 Marzo 1898 al 20 Aprile 1898. (opens in a new tab)

  Roll of 585 new members admitted between 20 March and 20 April 1898, bringing total membership to 14,595, listed province by province from Alessandria to Vicenza plus a long "Estero" section from Trieste, Vienna, Gorizia and Arco to London.