NEW YORK, December 18. New York's municipal Christmas tree, which will stand illuminated in Madison Square on Christmas Eve, and around which on the night of December 6 the official city Yuletide celebration will be held, is seventy-five feet high, the largest tree the city has had since the custom of municipal Christmas trees was inaugurated several years ago. At the celebration, a horn of 1,000 voices will sing Christmas songs, and later in the evening the chorus and the throngs of listeners will hear "The Messiah" at Madison Square Garden. The "tree of light committee" which has the annual celebration in charge says that there will be "more trees of light" throughout the country than ever before. The custom has also spread to Japan.

HORACE W. HALL MADE ASSISTANT TO TAX BOARD EXECUTIVE
Assisting Secretary in Governor Stuart Is Promoted to Pon ill on Vacated by Morton L. Waltherstein.
Horace W. Hall, assistant secretary to Governor Stuart, was yesterday elected by the State Tax Board to fill the vacancy in the Tax Board's staff created by the resignation of Morton L. Waltherstein. The election took place with the approval of Executive Assistant Secretary L. Shewmake in whose office Mr. Hall will be first assistant. Mr. Hall is a native of Northumberland County, and was educated at the University of Virginia and the University of Virginia.  George Town University Law School, Washington. From the last-named institution, he holds the degree of LL.D. He became assistant secretary to the Governor in May, 1887, when W.O. Williams, who then held the position resigned to become chief clerk to the Tax Board. 