There is no Hampton Subway Newsletter this week. Dan's Papers is trying to determine why that is. We have received no reply from the new Hampton Subway Club, which at the present time is in control of The Hampton Subway, and from where the newsletter comes.

We do want to ask readers to please light a candle tonight for the former Commissioner of the Hampton Subway, Bill Aspinall, who will be sentenced this week for the 114 charges he was convicted of involving graft, embezzlement and so forth and so on. The worst part is that because of the vast number of charges, it is entirely possible that he might receive the death penalty, thus becoming the first person in New York State to be put on death row for a non-capital crime. So light a candle.

Meanwhile, as many of the demonstrators waving signs out in front of the subway entrances have noticed, no trains are running. I think it's important to realize that the sale of Hampton Subway is a competely private matter. It is, or was, a private company. And if the buyer wants to make a private club out of it, there's not much anybody can do about that.

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