The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-11-01
AMERICAN DENTISTS WHO CHUM
WITH THEIR IMPERIAL PATIENTS
Hhedth Reputato O Brethren

learned some of the arts that made
DR.. Evans the boon companion and adj
wiser of Napoleon III. At any rate, he
went to Berlin about thirty years ago
without money or any friends among
the powerful ones to help him on, and
in a few years he was attending to
all the teeth in the kaiser's family.
That was, of course, when the present
kaiser was a boy, but when he became
emperor he continued just as friendly.
and unconventional as ever with DR..
Sylvester, although with almost every
one else he assumed a different man
ner at once and gave them to under
stand that he was very high and
mighty indeed.
Dr. Sylvester has big house in
Berlin in the most fashionable quarter
near the Tiergarten, where he has big
funkeys in gorgeous knee breeches to
open the doors and usher you in upon
magnificence. One room after another
stretches before you, each one SEEM
ing to be as grand as it could be and
filed with as beautiful furniture and
ornaments as you ever saw in a pri-
vate house. And in each one there
are gifts which the kaiser or some
member OF the imperial family has given
the dentist. To the persons whom he
wants to honor the most the kaiser
gives a marble or bronze bust of him.
self-and he has given DR.. Sylvester
three or four of these keepsakes.
In one room is the chair where the
kaiser has his dental work done. For
he comes to his dentist just the same
as others do, only he comes early in
the morning so as not to disturb DR..
Sylvester's regular practice. He gen.
orally walks down through the Tier
garten, attended by an adjutant, and
he has come and gone before the peo-
pie of the neighborhood know anything
about it. The young crown prince is
a great friend of DR.. Sylvesters also,
and goes to see him without ceremony.
One day, when he was little boy,
the dentist entered the palace and the
prince saw him from the top of the
stairs, and was so delighted that he
tried to get down by the quickest way
sliding down the balustrades. But In
the midst of the descent his father ap-
peared and gave him good spanking,
which the prince often laughs about
with DR.. Sylvester.
The kaiser has made DIR. Sylvester q
life member of the Royal Yacht club, the
American dentist being the only life mem
Der who Is not Of royal birth. The kaiser
is the commodore and Prince Henry the
assistant commodore. The meetings take
place in the summer at Kiel, where DR..
Sylvester goes with his yacht "Uarda,"
and the kaiser often goes on board for
a friendly chat.
Tell Him Russia's Secrets.
The cars dentist, Dr. Wallison, does
not have as pleasant a time, because
Russia is such different country. The
car could not be as good friends in public
with DR.. Wallison as the kaiser is with
DR.. Sylvester even if he wanted to. But
in private he admits Dr. Wallison to an
intimacy which is remarkable. All the
members of the imperial family demand
the services of DR.. Wallison, and as they
have estates in many different parts Of
the huge Russian empire and are always
changing about from one to another,
the dentist never knows where he will
be summoned to from one day to an
other. Etiquette in Russia would not al
low Of their going to DR.. Wallisons Of
fee.
But, of course he is not treated at all
like an ordinary individual when he visits
his imperial patients. He has at1his COM
mand every luxury in travelling, and when
he arrives at the palace a big suite of
rooms is at his disposal When he goes
to the car or czarina thew talk to him
without the least ceremony, asking him
all sorts of questions about what Is going
on in the world, chat to him about their
children and their plans, and tell him to
collect all the funny stories he can to
amuse them with when next he comes
DR.. Wallison lives in St Petersburg in
the same street with the grand dukes
and grand duchesses and ambassadors.
1t is near the Winter palace and faces
the Neva, where for many months in the
year there is one long stretch of snow
and ice. DR.. Wallison's house is full of
complete collection of large photographs
of the members of the imperial family,
each one gift from the parsonage whose
autograph Is written upon it.