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Show ART TREASURES NOT INSURED For One Reason, No Amount of Money Could Replace Thote In British Brit-ish Storehouses. The Rrcut national storehouses of art Lrcnsures sire not insured, writes n correspondent of tho London Dully Mall. io compensation would bo forthcoming In cuse of Urc or theft. The reason is that tho premiums on the millions of pounds' worth of pictures pic-tures In the National gallery, antiquities antiqui-ties In the British museum, and exhibits exhib-its In tho Victoria and Albert museum, muse-um, for instance, would amount to a very larj;e sum. "If art gnllerlea and museums insured in-sured they would have to pay out far InrKcr sums than they receive In admittance ad-mittance charges," said an olllclal of the National Portrait gallery. "Tho latest apimrattls for preventing and detecting fire Ib employed, and night watchmen are present." An olllclal of the Urltlsh museum said: "Wc have very thorough systems sys-tems of patrolling, and special firemen of our own, who formerly served In the London lire brigade." |