Vol 4, No 9

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Rivista Mensile del Touring Club Ciclistico Italiano, Vol 4, No 9 cover

Articles in this issue

  • Tesoreria.
    Treasurer General Venegoni reminds every full member that, under Article 18 of the statute, 1899 dues must be sent before 15 January and asks that renewals be sent early to ease the office's workload; payments may be made in cash by registered letter, postal money order or postal cheque to the Direzione Generale at Via Giulini 2, Milan.
  • Deliberazioni del Consiglio.
    Minutes of the Council's 26 August and 28 September 1898 sittings, chaired by Johnson: reforming the Rome consulate so its members deal directly with the Milan head office from 1899, questioning consul Gioas Sbolci's resignation from Rome, thanking member Ardenghi Arato for donating a route signpost for the Varallo-Alagna-Macugnaga road in memory of the 23 July Ciclo-Alpina outing, declining to alter an earlier ruling on Trieste's requests, resolving to publish the names of members in arrears, and agreeing to press Cagliari's Genio Civile to improve the city's cycle-unfriendly quaysides.
  • Cancelleria.
    The Cancelliere explains the 1899 membership card's new format: a photograph, trimmed to size and pasted on by each member, must be sent to the Milan head office for the Director General's dry stamp and signature before it is valid abroad; the old paper control labels are dropped, the card wallet is redesigned with a passepartout side and a pocket for customs papers, and duplicates (issued only on proof of loss, for 50 centesimi) will no longer be freely reissued.
  • Gita Napoli-Roma.
    An account, signed Arano, of the Naples section's autumn ride to Rome led by console Luigi Arano: two days' riding via Mondragone, Formia and Terracina (welcomed by console Goglia), along the Pontine Marshes' Appian Way and Velletri, arriving at Porta San Giovanni over three hundred strong; two days of Roman hospitality followed, with banquets at the Taliani restaurant and an evening at the Costanzi theatre where a bouquet was presented to actress Virginia Reiter, and speeches from Roman cyclists Antolini, Magagnini, Pardo and Trasatti and console Gioacchino Pizzini, who received a commemorative medal.
  • Per il libero transito dalla frontiera Svizzera.
    Sezione Movimento head S. Parboni reports that talks with the Bern customs directorate to have the ordinary T.C.C.I. card accepted at the Swiss border failed, so from 1 January 1899 every member entering Switzerland with a bicycle must instead hold the special photographed libretto obtainable from the Milan head office for 50 centesimi.
  • Per la importazione temporanea dei Velocipedi senza deposito di cauzione.
    The club's five-point customs code, printed in Italian, French, German and English, for the duty-free temporary import of bicycles: presenting the photographed membership card at the border to obtain a Laissez-passer, showing the machine and its lead seal on leaving the country, and keeping the re-export certificate as the only accepted proof, with each member liable to reimburse the T.C.C.I. for any duty or fine it has to pay on his behalf; a separate Swiss rule effective 1 January 1899 is set out for machines with and without an accompanying cyclist.
  • Alberghi e Ristoranti che si affigliarono al T. C. C. I.
    Running list of hotels and restaurants across Italy, from Alba to Treviso, newly affiliated to the Sezione Comfort with their member discounts, plus notice that three Turin hotels (the Svizzero, Terminus and Dogana Vecchia) have been struck off for raising prices and refusing the agreed discount during the National Exhibition, and a warning, signed Capo-Sezione Comfort Marelli, that the discount is a personal right of card-carrying members only.
  • Annuario 1899
    Marelli A. C., again entrusted by the Council with compiling the 1899 Annuario, asks members to send him directly, in clearly written hand, any corrections to names and addresses found in the outgoing edition, and explains that a proposal to issue two editions a year was dropped on cost grounds in favour of a single spring edition.
  • Sezione Strade.
    Capo Sezione Strade Luigi Vittorio Bertarelli reports the Guida dell'Umbria well advanced, delayed only by working through material supplied by the Perugia Provincial Deputation, and thanks consul Averardo Vardesi for his help; he also praises Alessandria consul Alessandro Casabassa for the detailed corrections to the Piedmont guide printed immediately below.
  • Osservazioni intorno alla Guida Regionale del Piemonte.
    Alessandria consul Rag. Alessandro Casabassa's itinerary-by-itinerary corrections to the Piedmont guide, dated 9 October 1898: renamed farmsteads (Case Giacoma, not Giacomo), a mislabelled tramway track near Cascina Riccone, a missing footbridge notation at Cascinagrossa, and a fuller account of the Alessandria-Orti road after the Tanaro's boat crossing was moved downstream when the riverbed silted up.
  • Levate di canapa tolte temporaneamente dallo smercio per ragioni di aggiornamento.
    Table of Istituto Geografico Militare map sheets at 1:50,000 and 1:25,000 scale, from Moncenisio to Albenga, temporarily withdrawn from sale while they are brought up to date.
  • Le Pubblicazioni del T.
    Overview of what members have received free each year since 1895, the 1895 Guida-Itinerario, the 1896-98 Guide Regionali for Lombardy, Lazio, Veneto and Piedmont, the yearly Annuario, road profiles 1-36 and the 1:500,000 chorographic maps of the Veneto and of Piedmont-Lombardy-Liguria, alongside the still-forthcoming Guida dell'Umbria and Central Italy map; annual membership costs L.6 plus a L.2 entry fee, or L.100 for life membership.
  • Prezzo delle Pubblicazioni del T.
    Price list, at 50% member discount, for the club's back-catalogue publications: individual road profiles from L.1 to L.2.40, the Lombardy, Lazio, Veneto and Piedmont regional guides at L.3 to L.5.50, the 1898 Annuario at L.1.75, and the Veneto and Piedmont-Lombardy-Liguria chorographic maps at L.2.50, with a discounted 1899 starter bundle offered to new members.
  • Elenco del Corpo Consolare pel triennio 1898-1900.
    Council resolution of 28 September-12 October 1898, signed Capo Console Generale Aggiunto O. Gorla: five Capi Consoli promoted (Timoteo Ali at Catania, G. Monigiotti at Lugano, Luigi Arano at Naples, Marco Mordo at Trieste, Felice Moro at Zurich), new consuls named from Bosco Chiesanuova to Ventimiglia, and consul Attilio De Stefani's resignation from Ventimiglia.
  • Candidati inscritti dal 20 Settembre al 20 Ottobre 1898
    Roll of new candidate members admitted during the month, province by province from Alessandria to Udine plus an Estero section reaching Trieste, Trento, Budapest and Susak, closing with membership figures rising from 16,838 on 20 September to 16,925 by 20 October 1898, signed by Gerente-responsabile Francesco Orsi.