Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1922-11-02
I, DEWITT CUYLER
FOUND DEAD IN CAR
Chairman of Railroad Execu-
tives' Association Succumbs
to Heart Trouble.
PROMINENT FINANClER
Began Career as Lawyer-Was
Much in Public Eye During,
Recent Strike.
PROMINENT FINANCIER
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA. Pa. November q
Thomas Dewitt Cuyler, a director Of
! thenPennsylvania Railroad Company and
chairman of the Railroad Executives
Association. was found dead today in
the private car of President Rea of
the Pennsylvania. in Broad Street sta
ton. MIR. Cuyler was in Rochester.
N. Y. yesterday. and was apparently in
good health.
Found by Porter.
The private car arrived at Broad
Street station early today and was
placed on a side track. According to in
structions. a porter called Mr.. Cuyler
at am. He received no response and
becoming alarmed summoned an at
tendant and a physician. The doctor
pronounced Mr.. Cuyler dead. Death
was due to heart attack. He had been
dead little more than an hour. ac-
cording to the opinion of the physician.
Mr. Cuyler was lawyer, but most
of his time was taken up with rail-
road and financial affairs. He came
prominently before the country in the
recent railroad shop strike by virtue
Of his position as chairman of the
railway executives and took a firm
stand against some of the demands of
the strikers. especially that relating
to seniority.
sixty-Eisht Years Old.
Mr. Cuyler was born in Philadel-
phia and was sixty-eight years old.
He was the son of the late Theodore
Cuyler, at one time general counsel
of the Pennsylvania railroad. He was
graduated from Yale University in
1874 and was admitted to the bar in
Philadelphia in 1876. He engaged in
the general practice of law. making
corporation law a speciality. He was
counsel for many large financial and
railroad corporations in Pennsylvania
and other states He was engaged in
many of the most complicated and
important railroad reorganizations of
the past twenty-five years.
the Pennsylvania railroad in 1899. He
was also a director Of the new York.
New Haven and Hartford railroad and
the Santa Fe system. He was also
represented on the directorate of
many local organizations and financial
institutions.
interested in Military Affairs.
Mr.. Cuyler took an interest in mill
.ary matters. He enlisted in the Ma
tional Guard of Pennsylvania in 1874,
rose to the rank of judge advocate
general of the state and was on the
retired roll Of officers with the rank
of colonel. Mr.. Cuyler was a member
of many clubs in Philadelphia and
also Of the Union. Century, University
and Lawyers of New York, the Buffalo
Club and the Chicago Club.
Mr.. Cuyler also was interested in
music and was a director of the
Metropolitan Opera Company of New
York and of a similar organization in
Philadelphia.
Apoplexy was the exact cause of
death given by a number of physicians
who later examined the body.
When Mr.. Cuyler's death became
known guard of railroad detectives
was Immediately thrown about the
car. which was later removed from the
train shed.
Mr. Cuyler's death came as a great
shock to all the officials of the COM
pany. So far as is known he had not
complained Of illness. He left mere
Tuesday for Rochester. where he
spoke on "A Constructive Public
Policy Toward the Railroads"
The body was taken 20 the Cuyler
home. at Haverford, q suburb Mr
Cuyler is survived by widow and
four daughters.