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Show TKOS. DEWITT CUYLER FOUND DEAD ON TRAIN Chairman of Railroad Exec utives Victim of Unexpected Unex-pected Attack PH1DADEDI-HIA Pa.. Nov. 2. Thomas do Witt Cuyler, a director of the rennsyl vania Railroad cdmpany and chairman of the railroad executives' execu-tives' association, was found dead today to-day In the private cor of President Rea of tho Pennsylvania, ln Rroad sired station. Mr. Cuyler was In Rochester, N Y . Wednesday and was apparently ln good health. TAILS TO ANSWER, Thr private car arrived at Broad street station early today and wis plated on a side track. According to Instructions u porter called Mr. Cuyler at 8 a. m. Ho received no rc-JipoASS rc-JipoASS and becoming alarmed summoned sum-moned an attendant and a doctor. The doctor pronounced Mr. Cuyler dead Death was due to apoplexy. He had been dead a little more than an hour, according to the physician. Mr- Cuyler was a lawyer but most of his tlnn- was taken up with railroad and financial affairs, lie came prominently prom-inently before the country in th- recent re-cent railroad shop strlk by vlrtuo of his position as chairman of the railroad rail-road executives and took a firm stand against some of the demands of the strikers, especially that relating to seniority. se-niority. OS t EARS l -i Mr. Cuyler was born in Philadelphia Philadel-phia and was 68 years old. Ho vrnsj the son or the lata Tneodore uuyier. at one time general counsel of the Pennsylvania railroad. !! was graduated grad-uated from Yale university in lsTl and was admitted to the bar in Philadelphia Phila-delphia In 1876. Ho engaged in tho general practice of law. making corporation cor-poration law a specialty. He was counsel for many larc financial and railroad corporations In Pennsylvania and other states. He was engage 1 ln many of the mot complicated and Important railroad reorganisations i C the past 2 5 years. DIRECTOR OF R IADS. I Mr. Cuyler was elected a director j of tho Pennsylvania railroad In 189(1 Be also was a director of the New York. New Haven & Hartford rall- I roud ami the Santa Ee system. tto j also was represented on the directorate directo-rate of many local organizations unl financial Institutions. Mr Cuyler took an interest ln mill-I tary matters. He eniistod ln the na- j tlonal guard of Pennsylvania in 1874. j rose to the rank of Judge advocate , general of tho state and was on thei retired roil or officers with the ranK.i of colonel Mr. Cuyler was a member mem-ber of many clubs In Philadelphia and New York. oo |