New-York tribune., 1922-11-03
T.DeW w .l,uyIer's
Death Is Laid
To Overwork
Friends Warmed Note d
Railroad Executive Who
Expired i'm Private Car
on Way to Philadelphia
Passed Away While Asleep
Famous as Corporation Law
yer and Was Director
in Many Large Industries

PHlLADELffHIA, Nov. 2.-Too much
hard work vas attributed By friends
as the cause that led TO the sudden
aeath of Thomas Dewitt Cuylcr,
national railroad figure, who was
found dead in Pennsylvania Rail
road private car to-day. They had
iof same time warned him. to "go
slow" telling him that for a man of
has years-he was sixty -eight--he was
working too hard
Mr. Cuyler, who was chairman of
the Association OF Railway Execu-
tives and director in the Pennsyl-
vania, the Santa Fe and the New
York, New Haven & Hartford rail
roads, died as his car was coming
into Philadelphia from Rochester,
N. y, where he spoke Yesterday in
railroad affairs. With the exception
of two porters, there was no other
persons aboard.
In accordance with his instructions
one of the porters knocked on Mr.
Cuyler's door, but received no re-
sponse. Later he knocked again and
went in to find Mr.. Cuyier in bed,
apparently unconscious.
At West Philadelphia tcleph one
message was sent into Broad Street
station, and when the car arrived q
railroad physician expressed the opir-
ion that Mr.. Cuyler had been dead &
little more than an hour. A report
made to the coroner's Office later in
tf.e day gave the cause OF death as
acute dilation Of tho heart.
The body was taken to Mr.. Cuyler's
home at Haverford, about ten mile.
west Of Philadelphia.
Announcement was made tonight
that Mr.. Cuyler's funeral would be
, held Sunday afternoon at the Second
Presbyterian Church here, and that
burial would be private.
Nh. Cuyley was of Holland Dutch
ancestry, both paternal and maternal
tember 2S 1854, the son of Theodore
and Mary (DeWitt) Cuyler. He was
educated at Yale, where he was &
member of "Scroll and Key" and was
graduated in 1874. Two years late,
he was admitted to the Pennsylvania
bar and began practice in Philadelphia
He was for seven years member oi
the First Troop of the Philadelphia
City Cavalry, and in 1887 was made
Judge Advocate General of the Penn
sylvania National Guard, with the
rank Of colonel.
Expert in Corporation Law
His legal practice was chiefly in cor
poration law, and, owing to this fact
he soon followed the example of hi.
father, who had been general counse
of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company
md interested himself in railroad af
fairs. He became director of tn,
Pennsylvania Railroad in 1899, Of thu
New York, New Haven G. Hartford
in 1910, and also of the Maine Central
| the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe. ths
Long Island, the international Railway
Of Buffalo, the Interborough- Metropoli
tan and Interborough Rapid TRANSIT
companies of New York, and the Long
Island Consolidated Electric Com
panies.
j in Philadelphia he was president ant
director of the Commercial Trusr
Company, and a director Of the Frank
| lin National Bank, the Girard Trust
!, the Philadelphia Savings Fund, the
Pennsylvania Company for insurance
on Lives and Granting Annuities, tht
Guarantee Company of North Amer
lea, and the Baldwin Locomotive
Works. In New York he was directo,