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Show FAMOUS HOTEL 1 TO CLOSE SOON Old Planter House At St. Louis Declines Further Guests t ST, I.OUI8. Dec. 6. (By the Asso-cluted Asso-cluted I'rexs ) Tlie Planters hotel for the first time in 105 years, stopped ret e vlng guests The "Old Planters House." will bo converted Into sin offlee building after January 1, KM it was decided Tuesday to reoelvs no more registrations, so that th. re would be ample time to dlsposo Of valuable furnishings and wind up all affairs of the famous hostelry, C. ( Nelson, president, announced the doors wn-.ld be locked as soon Ms the last of tho 300 guests had found other quarters. Tho hotel, particularly par-ticularly In the '40s nnd 00s, was considered the social center of the southland. Dining the GlVll war, Frank P. Blair and Nathaniel Lyon conferred hero preceding the capture of Camp Jackson. May 10. 1861. One June 11. 1861. the conference which resulted ln the fight of "brother against brother" ln Missouri was held at he Planters when Lyon dramatically de-clared de-clared his loyalty to the north and departed to enlist Mtssourlans In '.ho federal army Records show that such personages as tho following signed the hotel's register: Presidents Lincoln, Crant, Cleveland, Roosevelt and Taft. Martin Van Buren, King l'Jdwani VII thn Prince of Wales. Charles Dickens anrl (Jeneral Lafayette 00 |