Popolo 3; Pieretti, near the Porta Pinciana; Riganti & Coccia, Via di Po 21;
Fenini, by the main entrance to the Villa Borghese. Charge about 7 fr.
per hr., each addit. ½ hr. 2 ½ fr.; ostlers's fee 1 fr.
Motor Cars (comp. p. xvii) may be hired at the Garages Riuniti,
Via Calabria 46; Central Garage, Piazza Barberini 24a; Automobile
Excursion Co. Piazza di Spagna 49; Automobile Touring Rome, Piazza
Barberini 11. Charges per hr. in the city 4 fr., outside 5 fr., half day 30,
whole day 50 fr.
Bicycles (comp. p. xvii), with which many pleasant trips may
be made in the Campagna, may be hired at F. Grammel's, Piazza del
Popolo 1-2, at Via Quattro Fontane 114, Corso Vittorio Emanuele 260-262,
and other large cycling shops. Lessons are given on the cycle tracks
(pista) at the Velodromo Roma, Via Isonzo (Pl. I, 25). Owners of
bicycles must procure a licence (Téssera, 10 fr.) at Via de' Crociferi 49
(2nd floor). Office of the Società Velocepedistica Romana: Lungotevere
Prati 20.
d. Embassies and Consulates. Bankers. Physicians
and Chemists. Hospitals. Sick Nurses. Baths.
Embassies and Consulates. There are two classes of di-
plomatic agents at Rome, those accredited to the Italian government,
and those accredited to the Papal court, Great Britain and the
United States being the only great powers with no representatives
at the Vatican. British Embassy, Sir James Rennell Rodd,Via
Venti Settembre, near Porta Pia; councillor of embassy, Percy
C. H. Wyndham., American Embassy, Lloyd C. Griscom, Piazza
San Bernardo 16; secretary of embassy, John W. Garrett (office-
hours 10-1). — British Consulate: C. Ceccarelli-Morgan, consul,
Via Condotti 20. American Consulate: Chapman Coleman, consul,
Piazza San Bernardo 16; vice-consul general, Homer M. Byington.
Bankers (generally open 9-4). English: Thos. Cook & Son,
Piazza di Spagna 16; Sebasti & Reali (successors of Maquay,
Hooker & Co), Piazza di Spagna 20; Ad. Roesler-Franz & Figli,
Via Condotti 20; French, Lemon, & Co.,Piazza di Spagna 49-50;
Plowden & Co.,Piazza Santi Apostoli 53. — Italian: Banca
d'Italia (Pl. II, 24; p. 201), Via Nazionale; Banca Commerciale
Italiana, Palazzo Doria, Via del Plebiscito 112; Credito Italiano,
Corso Umberto Primo 347 (agencies: Piazza delle Terme 70 and
Corso Vittorio Emanuele 47-49). — German: Nast-Kolb & Schu-
macher,Via San Claudio 87; Nörrenberg & Co., Pal. Chigi, Piazza
Colonna 370; Schmitt & Co.,Piazza di San Silvestro 81. — Money
Changers in the Corso Umberto Primo, the Via Condotti, at the
Pantheon, etc.
Physicians. Baldwin (American), Via Gregoriana 25; Thom-
son-Bonar,Via del Babuino 114, corner of the Piazza di Spagna;
Brock (phys. to the British Embassy), Corso d'Italia 6; Inglis
Douglas,Piazza Barberini 12; Fenwick,Via di Mario de' Fiori 3;
Gavigan (phys. to the American Consulate), Via del Babuino 114;
Kaye,Via Sistina 3 (in winter); Smallpeice,Via Veneto 2; Wels-
ford,Piazza di Spagna 35; Mary Flint Taylor & Ruth Bensusan,