17 OCTOBER 1914, Page 14

AT LOGGERHEADS.

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE SPECTLTOR."1

SIR,—The real origin of "loggerheads" is this. A logger- head is a baton-shaped long peg of hard wood which went through holes in the thwarts of fishing-boats on the New- foundland Banks, for the purpose of belaying the ropes on the drift-nets, &c. The boats were of many nationalities, and frequently had rows over fouling each other's nets, &c. They took to the "loggerheads," as the handiest weapons they