Mrs. RÉalph Hamili, and othefs. His father first. brought the family to, vacation, on. the north shore in 1896, and in the, followýing. year he and three friends bought the.nie 700 block on Prospect avenue, running through to. Sheridan road,. for $10,000. Tbey each paid $5W0 cash, and the balance took the form of an. $8,O prhse.money mortgage. The faniily is the only one Hugtig wnngits originial tract, ho*stii ever. The Houighteling. property comnprises almost three acres, is 700 feet deep, and runs from. Prospe ct to Sheridan. Originally- they als o owned a 15-foot lUne fromi Sheridan) to the lake, so as to have a boathouse and bathbouse. But the village made a park ouf of theè adjoinhtlg property, and the senior Houghteling donated his lake frontage to the park project. The present James L. Houghteling took over the family home in 1925 and now lives there with bis wif e, the former Làura Delano of Washington, D. C., (a cousin of. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt), and their four children: James Lawrence, Jr., Maroaret Stuyvesant, Frederic Delano Donat. Pm*k-Ares M .Hoùtgteling's chief business interest, however, now- bas to do withi ne wspapers. In 1920 he joited the staff of the Ne* York Evening Post and a year later. camne to the Chicago >Eveniing Post, as head editorial writer. In 1923 he went over to the Chicago Daily News, becoming an officer in 1927. -He is now, a director néeeed reiet.in aiterone questionnaire signed xneuica another to establish bis need of bos-ý pital care,. and by,.the timpe the apits historic revoit hle spent bours ..in plication had been sent to ail the reqart gallery unwitting,: like government agencies, eleven. ïa'Moscow others wbo waited in the long q ueue uisite montbs bad elapsed. [to gain admittance, that. the revoluIn politics Mr.:.Houghteling is an" tion was beginning. He saw most of .ardent, New Dealer-and is confident who man ing over the, bridge to view it.. On' the March Sunday'afternoon when thef Petrograd garrison decided on that President Roosevelt will be re-, elce.When cballenged té> evaluate the program.of tbe Président. lie avow.s that Roosevelt isparticularly interested in protecting the welfare o-e rank and file of. ci tizehs, .reducing unemploymnrty helping the farmer, protect.ing the householder, providing better housing, better national* planning. As for -the debacle of the AAA, well, it did a good jobý while it lasted, and the Supreme court knows more about rewriting the constitution than it does about giving tbe farmers a break, "The President lays down broad. general princîples for the faire r distribution of the great natural wealth of this country," sums up '.\r. Houghteling. "He doesn't believe iii ïnaking a doing notbing for fear 61 of cautious lots as mistakes, few safety-first patriots seeni to, 1He lias started great and necessaty inationial Tbey can't beat hinxu improvements. 4 .... el- tive in the couimunity, serving asm last Winnetka chairman for ERavinia, 1or'instance, and on the board of the Winuetka Community Chest. years active in Chicago civic andi political affaàirs. In 1914 he was treasActive Chicagoem Mr. Houghteling has been for many plays golf (in tbe nineties). at Indian Hill, likes to ride borseback, reads mainly bistory and biography-ýaid novels. by good nmale authors like Conrad, Dumas, Galsworthv, and Sienkiewicz. He thinks novels by women writers usually Iack virility. Other points in bis biograpby include prep school in the Easti a B.A. at Yale, membership in Psi Upsilon to the.city before the Civil wYar as a Stat recognized authority on real estatej Stat ani to sufi 1Russian commented gr. Hougbwas a real pioncer. *He war.